pursuance

A search for something; a pursuit or quest.

[N]o man ought to be offended, that sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.

About 1350 she went to Rome, partly to obtain from the pope the authorization of the new order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed mission to elevate the moral tone of the age.

A completion or putting into effect of something already begun; a prosecution.

The state of being pursuant; consequence.