Definition of "chosen" []

• Past participle of choose. (verb)
• Selected from or preferred above others: the chosen few. (adjective)
• Having been selected by God; elect. (adjective)
• The elect considered as a group. Often used with the. (noun)

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• "He argues that the unintended effect is not voluntarily chosen (in the morally relevant sense of ˜chosen™ for which we hold people responsible) even though the agent knows that it will occur as a result of his actions."
• "The past participle of a transitive verb is always passive except in such forms as _have chosen, had chosen_."
• "“Chechen,” most experts agreed, was a term chosen by Russian colonists after the name of a local village that, ironically, bore the name of thirteenth century Mongol conqueror."