Quest vs Pursue - What's the difference?
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A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
* (William Shakespeare)
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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
(obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
* Herbert
(obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
* (William Shakespeare)
To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
To search for; to examine.
(obsolete) To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.
To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
* Wyclif Bible, John xv. 20
* 2009 , Martin Chulov, ‘Iraqi shoe-thrower claims he suffered torture in jail’, The Guardian , 15 Sep 09:
To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
* 2009 , Benjamin Pogrund, ‘Freeze won't hurt Netanyahu’, The Guardian , 1 Dec 09:
To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).
As an abbreviation quest
is quantized electronic structure.As a verb pursue is
(obsolete|transitive) to follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.quest
English
(wikipedia quest)Noun
(en noun)- Cease your quest of love.
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- Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
- The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
- What lawful quest have given their verdict?
Derived terms
* sidequestVerb
(en verb)pursue
English
Verb
(pursu)- The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have pursued' me, they shall ' pursue you also.
- He now feared for his life, and believed US intelligence agents would pursue him.
- Her rival pursued a quite different course.
- He even stands to gain in world terms: his noisy critics strengthen his projected image of a man determined to pursue peace with Palestinians.