seeking

plural seekings

1. The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.

   […] the Company contemplated having their works at Esher—for they have had long and anxious seekings for a location—to store our gun-cotton in unlimited quantity […]

   1873, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine, volume 9, page 269

1. in compoundsnot comparableThat seeks something specified.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of seek

   While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

   1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25