quest 
quest (kwest)
noun
- a seeking; hunt; pursuit
- in medieval romance, a chivalric journey undertaken by a knight in order to procure or achieve a particular object or end
- any journey or undertaking in pursuit of a typically lofty or noble goal
- Archaic a jury of inquest
Etymology: ME < OFr queste < ML questa < VL *quaesita, thing sought for < L quaesitus, pp. of quaerere, to seek, ask, inquire
intransitive verb
- to follow the track of game, or to bay in pursuit of game, as hounds do
- to go in search
transitive verb
to search for; seek
Converse of object
- never-end: Her never-ending quest to ' upset the status quo ' is akin to a snake eating its tail.
- abandon: Look what happens, he said, when the church abandons the quest for Jesus.
- fulfill: However, unlike Odysseus, IT managers must not simply avoid either fate: Instead, they must fulfill both quests.
- begin: Alerted to a new danger by the murder of a fellow immortal, Sam begins an epic quest to find the mysterious Pandora Keys.
- pursue: Patrick Clayton left to pursue the quest his own way via the Desert Survey.
Preposition: for
- perfection: But has Google taken their quest for perfection a few steps too far?
- immortality: The quest for divine immortality is a main thread of all the ancient myths associated with this constellation.
- vengeance: It's a story of a long-term quest for vengeance with a bizarre outcome.
- enlightenment: The Teahouse is where you meet your mentor and devoutly perform the ritual of tea ceremony as part of your quest for spontaneous enlightenment.
- domination: Not so AK, whose quest for domination of the Hammersmith stretch has now extended to trying to force the sailors off the river.
- stardom: Andrea Walker In her quest for stardom Andrea has been doing the gig circuit this month.
Adjective modifier
- perilous: Plot Outline: Jason sets out on a perilous quest to find the Golden Fleece and leads a team of adventurers called the Argonauts.
- northern: Northern quest he the eu argued is no doubt.
- ceaseless: For me knowledge is a ceaseless quest for truth.
- relentless: Ceri Jones Food companies are looking to each other in the relentless quest for growth and higher margins.
- fruitless: And it has continued to be a fruitless quest.
- spiritual: These pieces have an over-riding very, distant spiritual quest built into them.
Noun used with modifier
- epic: John Walsh goes on an epic quest Looking for the perfect picnic white, or a fresh summer rosé ?
- laser: We hold events for everyone from drag queens to rock, cheese to beer, and ice skating to laser quest.
- vision: And, of course, the Green Dragon rolling forever onwards, a continual vision quest.
You who desired so muchöin vain to askö Yet fed your hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, bless the questö Achieved that stillness ultimately best, Being, of all, least sought for: Emily, hear!
It isnot his possession of knowledge, of irrefutabletruth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.
'Butonethyng begyledus, that wemyght nat setheHoly Grayle hit was so preciously coverde.Wherefore I woll make here a vow that to-morne, withoute longer abydynge,I shall laboure in the queste of the Sankgreall.'
Religion issomething which stands beyond, behind, and within the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.
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