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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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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.

The state of being pursuant; consequence.

In pursuance of

in accordance with; in prosecution or fulfillment of.

Adj.

[from pursue.] A following; prosecution,process or continued exertion to reach or accomplish something; as in pursuance of the main design.

Consequence; as in pursuance of an order from the commander in chief.

pursuance ‎(countable and uncountable, plural pursuances)

A search for something; a pursuit or quest.
- Jeremy Taylor
  Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.
A completion or putting into effect of something already begun; a prosecution.
The state of being pursuant; consequence.

1911 — Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), "Saint Bridget of Sweden"
About 1350 she went to Rome, partly to obtain from the pope the authorization of the new order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed mission to elevate the moral tone of the age.