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PURSUANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pursuance mean?
• PURSUANCE (noun)
The noun PURSUANCE has 2 senses:
1. a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
2. the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion
Familiarity information: PURSUANCE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
Context example:
a quest for wealth
Hypernyms ("pursuance" is a kind of...):
search (the examination of alternative hypotheses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pursuance"):
wild-goose chase (the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable)
Derivation:
pursue (go in search of or hunt for)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The continuance of something begun with a view to its completion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
prosecution; pursuance
Hypernyms ("pursuance" is a kind of...):
continuance; continuation (the act of continuing an activity without interruption)
Derivation:
pursue (carry further or advance)
Context examples
In pursuance of this decision, when the two brothers, talking university shop, had used "trig" several times, Martin Eden demanded:-
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
In pursuance of my aunt's kind scheme, I was shortly afterwards fitted out with a handsome purse of money, and a portmanteau, and tenderly dismissed upon my expedition.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Upon this, I walked in, and in pursuance of the servant's directions walked upstairs; conscious, as I passed the back parlour-door, that I was surveyed by a mysterious eye, probably belonging to the mysterious voice.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In pursuance of my intention of referring to my own fictions only when their course should incidentally connect itself with the progress of my story, I do not enter on the aspirations, the delights, anxieties, and triumphs of my art. That I truly devoted myself to it with my strongest earnestness, and bestowed upon it every energy of my soul, I have already said.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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