Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Offering a choice; varied: as, “choiceful plenty,”
  • Making many choices; fitful; changeful; fickle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Making choices; fickle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Making choices; fickle.

Etymologies

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choice +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • My theme was really about being choiceful in my behavior.

    Susanne Goldstein: The Only Resolution You Should Make for New Year's Susanne Goldstein 2012

  • My theme was really about being choiceful in my behavior.

    Susanne Goldstein: The Only Resolution You Should Make for New Year's Susanne Goldstein 2012

  • My theme was really about being choiceful in my behavior.

    Susanne Goldstein: The Only Resolution You Should Make for New Year's Susanne Goldstein 2012

  • My theme was really about being choiceful in my behavior.

    Susanne Goldstein: The Only Resolution You Should Make for New Year's Susanne Goldstein 2012

  • In his lecture, Fournier suggested that these are three universal psychological needs to be choiceful, connected to others, to feel capable shared by all people and that all three are of equal importance.

    More on Happiness William Harryman 2007

  • If, then, the event in which a choiceful act takes form is predictable, and causally determinate, how can that act itself be free?

    FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

  • Language which describes or mentions choiceful action is secondary to language in which we do our choiceful thinking or make our choice itself, as when you say to someone placing alternatives before you “I opt for” A or B

    FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

  • So long as we are talking our way into or through choiceful acts we can use no category but the category proper to such talk — I cannot talk to myself the choice I am making, as being an event which occurs.

    FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

  • But often we speak of choiceful actions from outside, as having been done or as likely to be done, and then it is possible for us to switch categories, and to talk of them as events — or, more accurately put, to talk, instead, about the events in which they take effect.

    FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

  • We seem to get a glimpse of the schooling of his "choiceful sense" to that nicety which could not be content till it had made his native tongue "search all her coffers round."

    Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

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