peregrination

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Put three Frenchmen into the deserts of Libya, they will not live a month together without fighting; so that you would say this peregrination were a thing purposely designed to give foreigners the pleasure of our tragedies, and, for the most part, to such as rejoice and laugh at our miseries.

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  1. A traveling from one country or place to another; a roaming or wandering about in general; travel; pilgrimage. Through all the journey and peregrination of human life, there is matter and occasion offered of contemplation. Bacon, Physical Fables, x., Expl. A peregrination is this life; and what passenger is so besotted with the pleasures of the way that he forgets the place whither he is to go? Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 363. The story of my dangers and peregrination. R. Peeke (Arbor's Eng. Garner, I. 623).

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  • I have heard him preach several times at the O. South. In the course of my peregrination, as aunt calls it, I happen'd in to a house where D—— was attending the Lady of the family. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Diary of Anna Green Winslow, by Anna Green Winslow
  • Come with me," he added, "for a peregrination," and at the word he snatched me up, just as the dawn was beginning to break, far above the topmost tower of the castle; we rested in the firmament upon the ledge of a light cloud to gaze upon the rising sun; but my heavenly companion, was far more luminous than the sun, but all his splendour was upward, by reason of a veil which was betwixt him and the nether regions. —  The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
  • This peregrination was one most dangerous to Rodolphe Today," said he, "the streets are paved with creditors However, he did not go along by the outer Boulevards, as he had felt inclined to. —  Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
  • The two officers of the tribe wandered slowly along the cliffs, past the abodes of the Sun clan, Topanashka walking as usual,--erect, with his head bent slightly forward,--Hoshkanyi with a pompous air, glad to display himself in company with his much more respected colleague, to whom all the pleasant greetings which the two received on their peregrination were really directed. —  The Delight Makers
  • And if hee lose one of his fellow stroules, in the summer he turnes king of the gipsies: if not, some great man's protection is a sufficient warrant for his peregrination, and a meanes to procure him the town-hall, where hee may long exercise his qualities, with clown-claps of great admiration, in a tone sutable to the large eares of his illiterate auditorie. —  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
 

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  1. = Old French peregrination, French pérégrination = Spanish peregrinacion = Provencal peregrinacio, pelegrinacio = Portuguese peregrinação = Italian peregrinazione, pellegrinazione, from Latin peregrinatio(n-), from peregrinari, past participle peregrinatus, travel: see peregrinate, v.
 

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