Definition of Pursues

1. Verb. (third-person singular of ''pursue'') ¹

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Definition of Pursues

1. pursue [v] - See also: pursue

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pursues

pursuable
pursual
pursuals
pursuance
pursuances
pursuant
pursuant(p)
pursuantly
pursuaunt
pursue
pursued
pursuee
pursuees
pursuer
pursuers
pursues (current term)
pursuest
pursueth
pursuing
pursuingly
pursuings
pursuit
pursuite
pursuiter
pursuites
pursuits
pursuivant
pursuivants
pursy
purtenance

Literary usage of Pursues

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... 1834; posthumous work). the motive of self-interest to be reconciled with the motive of benevolence; if every man necessarily pursues his own happiness, ..."

2. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)
"CLAIR CROSSES WITH THE REST TO FORT INDEPENDENCE A CONFLAGRATION REVEALS HIS RETREAT THE BRITISH CAMP AROUSED FRASER pursues ST. CLAIR BURGOYNE WITH HIS ..."

3. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"Then pursues the when Washington decided that an attack must be made he grew sulky, and refused to conduct it. Washington was marching more rapidly than ..."

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