See persue on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "persues",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "persuing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "persued",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "persued",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "persue (third-person singular simple present persues, present participle persuing, simple past and past participle persued)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "pursue"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
71,
79
]
],
"ref": "1802, George Colman, (the Younger), “Sir Thomas Erpingham’s Sonnet on His Lady”, in Broad Grins; […], London: […] [F]or T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […] [by] W[illiam] Flint, […], →OCLC, page 56:",
"text": "It could not otherwise befall / (Sir Thomas, and his Wife, this course persuing,) / But that the Lady, affable to all, / Should greet the Friars, on her way / To matins, as she met them, every day, / Good morninging, and how d’ye doing: […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete form of pursue."
],
"id": "en-persue-en-verb-Hz86pT6I",
"links": [
[
"pursue",
"pursue#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "persue"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "persues",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "persuing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "persued",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "persued",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "persue (third-person singular simple present persues, present participle persuing, simple past and past participle persued)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "pursue"
}
],
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English obsolete forms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
71,
79
]
],
"ref": "1802, George Colman, (the Younger), “Sir Thomas Erpingham’s Sonnet on His Lady”, in Broad Grins; […], London: […] [F]or T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […] [by] W[illiam] Flint, […], →OCLC, page 56:",
"text": "It could not otherwise befall / (Sir Thomas, and his Wife, this course persuing,) / But that the Lady, affable to all, / Should greet the Friars, on her way / To matins, as she met them, every day, / Good morninging, and how d’ye doing: […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete form of pursue."
],
"links": [
[
"pursue",
"pursue#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "persue"
}
Download raw JSONL data for persue meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.