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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pursuance \Pur*su"ance\, noun [See {Pursuant}.]
1. The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.
Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths. --Jer. Taylor.
2. The state of being pursuant; consequence.
{In pursuance of}, in accordance with; in prosecution or fulfillment of.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pursuance
noun
1: a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria; "the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of fame"; "a quest for wealth" [syn: {pursuit}, {quest}]
2: the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion [syn: {prosecution}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "pursuance": chase, chasing, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, dogging, endurance, extension, follow, follow-up, following, heeling, hounding, hue and cry, hunting, lengthening, maintenance, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, progress, progression, prolongation, prosecution, protraction, pursual, pursuing, pursuit, quest, repetition, run, search, searching, seeking, sequel, sequence, series, shadowing, stalking, staying power, straight course, sustained action, sustenance, tailing, tracking, tracking down, trailing, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, way
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