Word info

questing

Speech parts

1. questing - Noun

2. questing - Verb

Meaning

questing

present participle of quest

questing (plural questings)

The act of going in quest of something.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Phrases with the word

Examples

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole. Evelyn Waugh

The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul. Joseph Campbell

It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line. George S. Patton

... while we must not thrust beliefs on people, belaboring their minds to try to make them accept orthodoxy, we may set these same beliefs before people, showing them the rich truth which we have found and which they may come to receive as their questing mind develops and grows. Leslie Weatherhead

Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither. Karen Marie Moning

There is no other action at those heights; What the questing soul once was it has ceased to be. Neither heat nor fiery love Nor suffering has place here. This is not light as the soul has imagined it. All it had sought it must now forget, And pass on to a new world, Beyond its powers of perception. Jacopone da Todi

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