chuser
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English cheser; equivalent to chuse + -er.
Noun[edit]
chuser (plural chusers)
- Obsolete spelling of chooser.
- 1681, Richard Baxter, A Second True Defence of the Meer Nonconformists, Against the Untrue Accusations, Reasonings and History of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls, &c. […], London: […] Nevil Simons, […], page 139:
- And he wiſely overlooketh the Queſtion, who choſe thoſe Preſbyters that were the chuſers of the Biſhop?
- 1732, Thomas Fuller (collector), Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British, London: […] B. Barker […]; and A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, […], page 35:
- Beggars and Borrowers muſt be no Chuſers.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 191:
- She became a subscriber—amazed at being anything in propria persona, amazed at her own doings in every way; to be a renter, a chuser of books!