chuser

English

Etymology

From Middle English cheser; equivalent to chuse +‎ -er.

Noun

chuser (plural chusers)

1. 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: […] [George Sidney] for 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!