Antonyms for quests
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kwest |
| Phonetic Transcription : kwɛst |
Definition of quests
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
- We seem never to reach the ultimate origins or to find an end to our quests.
- Extract from : « The Apple-Tree » by L. H. Bailey
- Of all their quests, this seemed the most vague and hopeless.
- Extract from : « Roger Ingleton, Minor » by Talbot Baines Reed
- Next she asked me if there chanced to be any other African quests upon which I had set my mind.
- Extract from : « The Ivory Child » by H. Rider Haggard
- Always command me, Miss Joyce, and I will always fly on your quests.
- Extract from : « Thorley Weir » by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
- It is not he so much that makes the quests, as that the quests are made of him.
- Extract from : « Popular scientific lectures » by Ernst Mach
- I was glad of this, being weary of quests for the time being.
- Extract from : « The Bonadventure » by Edmund Blunden
- His riddles and his quests, his ideals and delights are largely physical.
- Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; » by Clark S. Beardslee
- A kind of intermediary nymph—an enchantress indeed—who has assisted and advised him in his quests for the goddess.
- Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 » by George Saintsbury
- He believed quite simply that it was the working of a law, not the breaking of one, which gave answer and led him in his quests.
- Extract from : « The Lost Prince » by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Thus ended the three quests which followed the marriage of King Arthur and Guenever the fair.
- Extract from : « Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15) » by Charles Morris
Synonyms for quests
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