seeking
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seeking (plural seekings)
- The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.
- 1873, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, volume 9, page 269:
- […] the Company contemplated having their works at Esher—for they have had long and anxious seekings for a location—to store our gun-cotton in unlimited quantity […]
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seeking (not comparable)
- (in combination) That seeks something specified.
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seeking
- present participle and gerund of seek
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25:
- While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.