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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kwest |
| Phonetic Transcription : kwɛst |
Definition of quest
Origin :- c.1300, "an inquest;" early 14c., "a search for something" (especially of judicial inquiries or hounds seeking game), from Old French queste "search, quest, chase, hunt, pursuit; inquest, inquiry" (12c., Modern French quête), properly "the act of seeking," and directly from Medieval Latin questa "search, inquiry," alteration of Latin quaesitus (fem. quaesita) "sought-out, select," past participle of quaerere "seek, gain, ask" (see query (n.)). Romance sense of "adventure undertaken by a knight" (especially the search for the Grail) is attested from late 14c. Johnson's dictionary has questmonger "Starter of lawsuits or prosecutions."
- noun search, exploration
- His quest is our quest: the ceaseless striving to live out our true creed.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Bewulf sets out in quest of its hiding-place, with twelve men.
- Extract from : « Beowulf » by Unknown
- But not for that did aunt Ann relinquish her quest for the betterment of the domestic world.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- They found it surging and tossing, in quest of Defarge himself.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- She was confessedly in league with a gang of adventurers upon a quest for treasure.
- Extract from : « The Inn at the Red Oak » by Latta Griswold
- A little later the two men returned, unsuccessful in their quest.
- Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
- Little by little the story of the B-Hive and the quest for an Eldorado came out.
- Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
- White Fang, sliding by in quest of meat, stopped and began to eat the chips.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- She was searching there in the blackness, and in her quest she was approaching him.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- I, with nineteen men and my ensign, took a different route in quest of them.
- Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers
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