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Seeking   /sˈikɪŋ/   Listen
Seeking

noun
1.
The act of searching for something.  Synonym: quest.
2.
An attempt to acquire or gain something.


Seek

verb
(past & past part. sought; pres. part. seeking)
1.
Try to get or reach.  "Seek an education" , "Seek happiness"
2.
Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.  Synonyms: look for, search.  "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
3.
Make an effort or attempt.  Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, try.  "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps" , "The police attempted to stop the thief" , "He sought to improve himself" , "She always seeks to do good in the world"
4.
Go to or towards.
5.
Inquire for.



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"Seeking" Quotes from Famous Books



... contrary, It is stated (I, qu. i [*Can. Quidquid invisibilis]): "It is absolutely forbidden to make a charge for what is acquired by the consolation of invisible grace, whether by demanding a price or by seeking any kind of return whatever." Now all these spiritual things are acquired through an invisible grace. Therefore it is not lawful to charge a price or return ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas
... his way through the crowd and soon found the man he was seeking. The poor fellow had one arm in a sling and had several cuts on his face, and declared himself very much ...
— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)
... with the sacred Mid[-e] stone indicated within, as also another spot to signify the place occupied by a sick person. The waving lines above and beneath the oblong square are magic lines, and indicate magic or supernatural power. The singer compares the candidate to a sick man who is seeking life by having shot into his ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various
... opinion of the land. There is the dictum here for a man who adores a woman who is possessed by a husband. If he has long adored her, and known himself to be preferred by her in innocency of heart; if he has solved the problem of being her bosom's lord, without basely seeking to degrade her to being his mistress; the epithets to characterise him in our vernacular will probably be all the less flattering. Politically we are the most self-conscious people upon earth, and socially the frankest animals. The terrorism of our social laws is ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... 12 two German armies were on the move in Poland, seeking to pierce the Russian lines. One of these armies was advancing along the road to Przasnysz with the bank of the River Narew as its objective. This was the main German attack and inaugurated one of the ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell


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