choice
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choice englanniksi
An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
(quote-journal)
(ux)
The power to choose.
''She didn't leave us much choice''.
(quote-book)
One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
Anything that can be chosen.
The best or most preferable part.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)
Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
(RQ:Bacon Apophthegmes)
1757, (w), ''(w)'', London: R. & J. Dodsley, Part I, Section I, p. 1,https://archive.org/details/enqphilosophical00burkrich
- We see children perpetually running from place to place to hunt out something new; they catch with great eagerness, and with very little choice, at whatever comes before them; their attention is engaged by every thing, because every thing has, in that stage of life, the charm of novelty to recommend it.
A sufficient number to choose among.
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(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
Careful in choosing; discriminating.
(RQ:Milton Areopagitica)
(RQ:Wordsworth Resolution and Independence)
1856, (w) (tr.), ''Fairy Tales by the Countess d'Aulnoy'', s:Fairy Tales by the Countess d'Aulnoy/The Princess Carpillon|The Princess Carpillon:
- Thus musing, he ate nothing; the Queen, believing that it was in consequence of his having been unkindly received, loaded him with caresses; she herself handed him some exquisite fruits, of which she was very choice.
(RQ:Melville Omoo)
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