Dictionary entry

Pursuance

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pur‐su″ance (?), n. [See Pursuant.] 1. The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.

Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths. Jer. Taylor.

2. The state of being pursuant; consequence.

In pursuance of, in accordance with; in prosecution or fulfillment of.