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Quest   /kwɛst/   Listen
Quest

noun
1.
A search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria.  Synonyms: pursuance, pursuit.  "Life is more than the pursuance of fame" , "A quest for wealth"
2.
The act of searching for something.  Synonym: seeking.
verb
1.
Make a search (for).  "The animal came questing through the forest"
2.
Search the trail of (game).
3.
Bark with prolonged noises, of dogs.  Synonym: bay.
4.
Seek alms, as for religious purposes.
5.
Express the need or desire for; ask for.  Synonyms: bespeak, call for, request.  "She called for room service"



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"Quest" Quotes from Famous Books



... sideways or shuffling a dragging jig, and the concrete walk sounded to the broken two-four rhythm. Their voices had a dusky turbulence. Suddenly, to the woman rocking on the porch of the doctor's house, the night came alive, and she felt that everywhere in the darkness panted an ardent quest which she was missing as she sank back to wait for——There must ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... been seen a couple of hours before, running in the direction of the path that led into the mountains, as if she was fleeing from some one, Maggie had gone as far as she dared in quest of her, but her loudest shouts brought no reply ...
— The Jungle Fugitives • Edward S. Ellis
... and traced about it with his finger, until he found a certain paragraph of which he was in quest. ...
— The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargin • Charles Dickens
... brings with it a certain exhilaration, especially to the young and ardent, and thoughts of such a journey on such a quest could not but be tinged with all the rainbow ...
— In the Days of Chivalry • Evelyn Everett-Green
... vain, for his spy came and told him, after an hour's impatience and suspense, that they were gone out together. He found there was no chance of seeing her again that day, everything falling out contrary to his wishes; he was forced therefore to leave the Marchioness, and go in quest ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre


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