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noun

Seeker n.

One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.

(Eccl.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments. "A skeptic (is) ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... I fear, 't will peril thee Within thy doors to take A hunted seeker of the Truth, Oppressed ...

— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... use can be such politique provocatrice towards England? Or is it only to give some money to a hungry, noisy, and not over-principled office-seeker? ...

— Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 • Adam Gurowski

... you, boys! where our God has made room For field and for city, for plough and for loom. The West for you, girls! for our Canada deems Love's home better luck than a gold-seeker's dreams. Away! and your children shall bless you, for they Shall rule o'er a ...

— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell

... has since developed into one of the richest mines in the world. It is not a placer mine, however, but a quartz mine, one needing capital for its development and with no charms for the ordinary gold-seeker. The gold is found in a friable and easily worked rock, enabling low-grade ores to be handled at a profit, and to-day fifteen hundred stamps are busy and the mines are ...

— Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... said, in 1809, that while he did not pretend to step out of his own sphere and to control the internal management of other departments, yet he could not "consent to act the part of a mere financier, to become a contriver of taxes, a dealer of loans, a seeker of resources for the purpose of supporting useless baubles, of increasing the number of idle and dissipated members of the community, of fattening contractors, pursers, and agents, and of introducing in all its ramifications that system of patronage, corruption, ...

— Albert Gallatin - American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII • John Austin Stevens

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