pursuance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pur=su=ance

CIDE DICTIONARY

pursuance, n. [See Pursuant.].

•  The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.  [1913 Webster]

  "Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths."  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being pursuant; consequence.  [1913 Webster]

In pursuance of, in accordance with; in prosecution or fulfillment of.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pursuance, n. (foll. by of) the carrying out or observance (of a plan, idea, etc.).

THESAURUS

pursuance

chase, chasing, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, dogging, endurance, extension, follow, follow-up, following, heeling, hounding, hue and cry, hunting, lengthening, maintenance, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, progress, progression, prolongation, prosecution, protraction, pursual, pursuing, pursuit, quest, repetition, run, search, searching, seeking, sequel, sequence, series, shadowing, stalking, staying power, straight course, sustained action, sustenance, tailing, tracking, tracking down, trailing, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, way

ROGET THESAURUS

pursuance

Pursuit

N pursuit, pursuing, prosecution, pursuance, enterprise, business, adventure, quest, scramble, hue and cry, game, hobby, still-hunt, chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing, venation, venery, fox chase, sport, sporting, shooting, angling, fishing, hawking, shikar (Geog loc:India), pursuer, hunter, huntsman, shikari (Geog loc:India), sportsman, Nimrod, hound, pursuing, in quest of, in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit, on the scent, in pursuance of, after, Int, tallyho!, yoicks!, soho!.