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  • noun Plural form of pursuite.

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Examples

  • At the length, the Friar (in very loving and friendly sort) mildly reproved him for such amorous glaunces, and other pursuites, which (as he thought) he dayly used to the Gentlewoman, according to her owne speeches.

    The Decameron 2004

  • I have here [in South Wales] much otium and therefore I may cast awaye some of it in vaine pursuites, chusing always rather to doe some thinge worth nothing then nothing att all.

    Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885

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