Questing
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of going in quest of something.
"By this move, Devereux gave new importance to fieldwork as a method of social enquiry. Psychoanalysis taught him that anxiety was not something to be avoided but is the driving force which propels our intellectual questings."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of quest form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"By this move, Devereux gave new importance to fieldwork as a method of social enquiry. Psychoanalysis taught him that anxiety was not something to be avoided but is the driving force which propels our intellectual questings."
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