Word Meanings - INSECTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.

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• PURSUANCE
  1. The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after. Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths. Jer. Taylor. 2. The state of being pursuant; consequence. In pursuance of, in accordance with;
• PURSUANT; PURSUANTLY
  Agreeably; conformably.
• PURSUABLE
  Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted. Sherwood.
• PURSUE
  poursuivre, fr. L. prosequi; pro forward + sequi to follow. See Sue, 1. To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare. We happiness pursue; we fly from pain. Prior. The happiness of men lies
• PERSECUTION
  1. The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship. Persecution produces no sincere conviction. Paley. 2. The state or condition of being persecuted.
• HARASSMENT
  The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. Ld. Lytton.
• PURSUANT
  Acting in consequence or in prosecution ; hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of. The conclusion which I draw from these premises, pursuant to the query laid down, is, etc. Waterland.
• PURSUIT
  Prosecution. That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. Fuller. Curve of pursuit , a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according
• PURSUER
  A plaintiff; a prosecutor. (more info) 1. One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.
• PURSUIVANT
  A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; -- called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively. The herald Hope, forerunning Fear, And Fear, the pursuivant of Hope. Longfellow. 2.
• PURSUAL
  The act of pursuit.