[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That chooses. Hence Choosingly adv., by choice, in preference.
1651. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, iv. § 7. If our spirits can serve God chusingly and greedily.
1862. Ruskin, Unto this Last, 78. The love which seeks diligently, that is to say, choosingly and by preference to all things else.
