しをえらぶ – Vocabulary details

しをえらぶ

Expression

Verb (5-dan, ぶ)

1. to commit suicide; to end one's life; (lit.) to choose death

death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

to choose; to select; to pick (out)

むしろ名めい誉よあるしをえらびたい。

I would prefer an honorable death.

降こう伏ふくするくらいならしをえらびます。

I'd rather die than surrender.

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