pursuit

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If a police car kills innocents during a pursuit, the pursuit was a failure.

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  1. noun The act or an instance of chasing or pursuing.
  2. noun The act of striving: the pursuit of higher education.
  3. noun An activity, such as a vocation or hobby, engaged in regularly.

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  • We drove down Winchester Street, then we exited the vehicle and pursued on foot Describe for the jury, if you would, what you refer to as your pursuit of the defendant. —  Scottoline, Lisa - Mistaken Identity
  • In this pursuit was my prime of life wasted, which might have been profitably and honourably spent In three years, however, I brought my sixty-three suits to a kind of conclusion; the probabilities were this could not have been effected in fifty. —  Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck
  • If the business before me springs not from a clear understanding and a regard to that use of things which perfect wisdom approves, to be brought to a sense of it and stopped in my pursuit is a kindness, for when I proceed to business without some evidence of duty, I have found by experience that it tends to weakness. —  The Journal of John Woolman
  • There can be no conclusion except that the pursuit was a massacre, where fleeing women with in­fants on their backs, or in their arms, were shot down after resistance had ceased and almost every warrior was dead or dying. —  Cheif Red Fox
  • If a police car kills innocents during a pursuit, the pursuit was a failure. —  Signs of the Times
 

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occupation ·  search ·  habit ·  desire ·  aspect ·  ambition ·  activity ·  manner ·  enjoyment ·  existence ·  struggle ·  purpose

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pursuit:   pursuits
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman pursuite, from pursure, to pursue; see pursue.

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  1. Early modern English pursute; from Middle English pursute, from Old French porsuit, poursuit, masculine, poursieute, poursiute, poursuite, French poursuite, a following, chase, from porsuir, etc., poursuivre, pursue: see pursue.
 

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/pərˈsjut/
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