pursuit vs reply

pursuit

noun
  • The act of pursuing. 

  • A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly. 

  • A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents. 

reply

noun
  • A counterattack. 

  • Something given in reply. 

  • A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer. 

  • The answer of a figure. 

  • A written or spoken response; part of a conversation. 

verb
  • To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer. 

  • To act or gesture in response. 

  • To repeat something back; to echo. 

How often have the words pursuit and reply occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )