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Definition of Pursued
1. Adjective. Followed with enmity as if to harm. "Running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes"
2. Noun. A person who is being chased. "The film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued"
Definition of Pursued
1. Verb. (past of ''pursue'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pursued
1. pursue [v] - See also: pursue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pursued
Literary usage of Pursued
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come by John Bunyan (1806)
"CHAP. VI. Tender-conscience crosses the bridge Self-denial, in the valley of
Humiliation.—He is pursued by Worldly- honour, ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"He spoke, and fiercely with his sharp-tipt lance 930 pursued the every movement
of the foe ; So that whoever durst approach the ships With fire obedient ..."
3. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"... the fair companion of your retreat shall not be pursued. She has found a new
asylum, in your heart. Priceless asylum.i —I envy her, and leave her there. ..."
4. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1893)
"IN WHICH THE SAME SUBJECT IS pursued. BECKY did not rally from the state of stupor
and confusion in which the events of the previous night had plunged her ..."
5. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"... INCH," I WAS RESOLVED TO TAKE THE "ELL" HOW I pursued MY EDUCATION MY TUTORS
HOW I COMPENSATED THEM—WHAT PROGRESS I MADE SLAVERY WHAT I HEARD SAID ABOUT ..."
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