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pursuits

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noun

the act of pursuing: in pursuit of the fox.

an effort to secure or attain; quest: the pursuit of happiness.

any occupation, pastime, or the like, in which a person is engaged regularly or customarily: literary pursuits.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French purseute ≪ Vulgar Latin *prōsequita for Latin prōsecūta, feminine of prōsecūtus, past participle of prōsequī to pursue; compare suit

Synonyms
1. chase, hunt. 2. search. 3. activity, preoccupation, inclination.

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pursuit

late 14c., "persecution," from Anglo-Fr. purseute, from O.Fr. porsuite (early 14c.), from porsivre (see pursue). Meaning "action of pursuit" attested from early 15c.; sense of "one's profession, recreation, etc." first recorded 1520s.

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"The great object in life is Sensation—to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this "craving void" which drives us to gaming, to battle, to travel, to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment."

-George Gordon Noel Byron

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