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n. A carrying out or putting into effect; prosecution.

n. A search for something; a pursuit or quest

n. A completion or putting into effect of something already begun; a prosecution

n. The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.

n. The state of being pursuant; consequence.

n. The act of following or pursuing; pursuit; prosecution: as, the pursuance of some design; in pursuance of orders.

n. Synonyms See pursuit.

n. a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria

n. the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion

"I resent the people who did this simply out of reverence for their ‘god’ (nature) and in pursuance of the ideal that the worship of this ‘god’ mandates: the total abdication or removal of modernized man from the face of the earth, for the sake of “letting nature do its thing.”"

continuance    continuation   

consequence   

fulfilment    contravention    furtherance    infraction    violation