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English
Etymology
From Middle English cheser; equivalent to chuse + -er.
Noun
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 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: , volume III, London: for T 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!