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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seeker \Seek"er\, n.
     1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
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     2. (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.
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              A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like
              our new upstart sect of Seekers.      --Bullokar.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  seeker
       n 1: someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after
            truth" [syn: {searcher}, {quester}]
       2: a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward
          some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio
          waves)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "seeker":
     applicant, aspirant, bidder, candidate, chaser, claimant, delver,
     digger, follower, hopeful, hunter, perquisitor, petitioner,
     postulant, pursuant, pursuer, quester, ransacker, research worker,
     researcher, researchist, rummager, searcher, solicitant, solicitor,
     suitor, suppliant, supplicant, zetetic
  
  

















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