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Definition of Pursuances
1. pursuance [n] - See also: pursuance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pursuances
Literary usage of Pursuances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1851)
"But yet neither are these counsels of perfection left wholly to our liberty so
as that they have nothing of the law in them; for they are pursuances of the ..."
2. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor (1857)
"perfective desires of our natures, the longings and pursuances after Heaven, it
is certain they could not be made miserable by chance and change, ..."
3. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor (1850)
"... and reductive of these to act; how many days and nights we have spent in sorrow
or care, in habitual and actual pursuances of virtue; what instrument we ..."
4. The rule and exercises of holy dying by Jeremy Taylor (1869)
"many days and nights we have spent in sorrow or care, in habitual and actual
pursuances of virtue ; what instrument we have chosen and used for the ..."
5. The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor (1876)
"days and nights we have spent in sorrow or care, in habitual and actual pursuances
of virtue ; what instrument we have chosen and used for the eradication ..."
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