pursuance
English
Noun
pursuance (countable and uncountable, plural pursuances)
- A search for something; a pursuit or quest.
- Jeremy Taylor
- Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.
- Jeremy Taylor
- A completion or putting into effect of something already begun; a prosecution.
- The state of being pursuant; consequence.
Quotations
- 1911 — Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), "Saint Bridget of Sweden"
- About 1350 she went to Rome, partly to obtain from the pope the authorization of the new order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed mission to elevate the moral tone of the age.