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Definition of Pursuing
1. Adjective. Following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit. "Listened for the hounds' pursuing bark"
Definition of Pursuing
1. Verb. (present participle of ''pursue'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pursuing
1. pursue [v] - See also: pursue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pursuing
Literary usage of Pursuing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"... ami 23 And the men of Israel gathered ! am pursuing after Zebah and Zal- the
... and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them, ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"For the unjust is pursuing a reality; at any rate, he does not live with a view
to appearances—he wants to be really unjust and not to seem only :— ' His ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... spear pierced Glaucus thro' the chest, Suddenly wheeling, when the other
thought pursuing to o'ertake him ; and he fell With crash of arms to earth. ..."
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