pursuit 
pur·suit (pər so̵̅o̅t′, -syo̵̅o̅t′)
noun
- the act of pursuing
- an occupation, career, interest, etc. to which one devotes time and energy
Etymology: ME purseute < OFr poursuite
Preposition: of
- happiness: But there is nothing flimsy about the pursuit of happiness.
- excellence: By helping key workers, we will underpin the pursuit of excellence in our public services.
- self-interest: The pursuit of narrow donor self-interests would be diminished because of its broad and inclusive approach.
- perfection: Furthermore, in a world obsessed by the pursuit of perfection, where do we set our ideas of ' normal ' ?
- truth: Here is a short list: The pursuit of truth.
- profit: Their needs are ignored in the pursuit of profit.
Converse of object
- evade: The ultimate cause of evolving locomotion with a low transport costs is to evade pursuit - at which the red deer is extremely good.
- abandon: Abandoning the pursuit of illegal weapons can lead to better relations with the United States, and other free nations.
- prefer: Emperor Huizong was a great patron of the arts who preferred artistic pursuits to the affairs of state.
- enjoy: As well as enjoying country pursuits, Ian Lancaster plays golf and skies.
Adjective modifier
- outdoor: We met in an outdoor pursuits center where we had access to a climbing wall.
- relentless: No charity shop bin, second hand record store or music fair is missed in their relentless pursuit of gems of forgotten music.
- trivial: And then we're going to watch the news and play Trivial Pursuit when the lights go out.
- recreational: This film follows the history of the canals, and explores their uses for recreational pursuits.
- dogged: However, the producers decided to drop the character in order to concentrate the action on Erskine's dogged pursuit of justice.
- single-minded: He was to devote the next ten years of his life to a single-minded pursuit of this goal.
Modifies a noun
- instructor: As qualified outdoor pursuits instructors they know the importance of careful planning, particularly on the high fells where weather conditions can change dramatically.
Noun used with modifier
- leisure: Shopping was becoming more of a leisure pursuit by the 1970s.
- sporting: Shopping and Leisure Doncaster has great shopping facilities, a vibrant nightlife and an array of leisure and sporting pursuits.
- countryside: In his later prose memoirs, he records in hypnotic and possibly obsessive detail the joys of nature and countryside pursuits.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly everyaction and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one ofthevital personal rights essentialtotheorderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
Le mensonge est essentiel a' l'humanite¤ . Il y joue peut- e" tre un aussi grand ro" le que la recherche du plaisir, et d'ailleurs est commande¤ par cette recherche. Lies are essential to humanity.They play perhaps asgreat a role as the pursuit of pleasure, and are indeed controlled by this pursuit.
Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too.
Pour ce qu'alors je de¤ sirais vaquer seulement a' la recherche de la ve¤ rite¤ , je pensai qu'il fallait que jerejetasse comme absolument faux tout ce en quoi je pourrais imaginer le moindre doute, afin de voir s'il ne resterait point, apre' s cela, quelque chose en ma cre¤ ance qui f u" t entie' rement indubitable. Sincemy present aimwastogivemyself up tothepursuit of truth alone, I thought I mustreject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine the least doubt, in order to see if I should not be left at the end believing something that was absolutely indubitable.
Scientific discoveryand scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of them without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
That it is at least as difficult to staya moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the malignityand rapidity of the Plague; that the contagion, when it has once made head, will spare no pursuit or condition, but will lay hold on people in the soundest health, and become developed inthe most unlikely constitutions; is a fact as firmlyestablished by experience as that we human creatures breathe an atmosphere.
What men or Gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
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