2. The power or opportunity of choosing; option.

Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it.

Hooker.

3. Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.

I imagine they [the apothegms of CŠsar] were collected with judgment and choice.

Bacon.

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