pursuance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
    quest; pursuit.
    • the pursuit of love
    • life is more than the pursuance of fame
    • a quest for wealth
  2. noun the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion
    prosecution.

WordNet


Pur*su"ance noun
Etymology
See Pursuant.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913