Synonyms for choosing
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : chooz |
| Phonetic Transcription : tʃuz |
Top 10 synonyms for choosing
Définition of choosing
Origin :- Old English ceosan "choose, seek out, select; decide, test, taste, try; accept, approve" (class II strong verb; past tense ceas, past participle coren), from Proto-Germanic *keus- (cf. Old Frisian kiasa, Old Saxon kiosan, Dutch kiezen, Old High German kiosan, German kiesen, Old Norse kjosa, Gothic kiusan "choose," Gothic kausjan "to taste, test"), from PIE root *geus- "to taste, relish" (see gusto). Only remotely related to choice. Variant spelling chuse is Middle English, very frequent 16c.-18c. The irregular past participle leveled out to chosen by 1200.
- noun selecting
- Beauty must be the first law of life to the sex that has not the privilege of choosing.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- He was a gentle soul, and she had always been able to guide him in paths of her own choosing.
- Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
- She gave him no answer; it, was as if she were choosing words.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Choosing among them, he presently found a sapling to his liking.
- Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
- God says, 'Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil, and choosing the good.'
- Extract from : « Salted With Fire » by George MacDonald
- For a messenger some of them thought of choosing one Old Good Deed.
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
- Of course it must be understood that she was choosing the subject.
- Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
- I must say, Godmother, that you have strange taste in choosing friends.
- Extract from : « Prince Vance » by Eleanor Putnam
- We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- So that sometimes it is a case of choosing the lesser of two evils, and choosing immediately.
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
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