pilgrim

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While the pilgrim was at Vicenza, he had many spiritual visions.

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  1. noun A religious devotee who journeys to a shrine or sacred place.
  2. noun One who embarks on a quest for something conceived of as sacred.
  3. noun A traveler.

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  • He then disguised himself as a pilgrim, and returned to France. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
  • The church that misbegotten innocent flamed up toward heaven amber and grey and crimson under the stars EIGHT-EIGHT IN LAVENDER Andrew Vine came out to Africa this year as a pilgrim, and was disappointed. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
  • At the close of the ball, when she learns that the fascinating young pilgrim is a Montague, the hereditary enemy of her house, she gives her first touch of pathos to the words My only love sprung from my only hate Too early seen unknown, and known too late But it is a pathos entirely different from that which later tinges her sad good-night to her mother and nurse when she has determined to counterfeit death Farewell!--God knows when we shall meet again Miss Neilson also possesses, in an eminent degree, the power to portray that sly humor without malice known as archness_. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
  • When the pilgrim was almost upon him he flung the girl to the ground and drew his gun. —  Prairie Flowers
  • An' if it hadn't be'n for the pilgrim, I'd--" A man stood directly in front of him--two men. —  Prairie Flowers
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French peligrin, from Late Latin pelegrīnus, alteration of Latin peregrīnus, foreigner; see peregrine.

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  1. Early modern English also pilgrime, pelgrom; from Middle English pilgrim, pylgrym, pelgrim, pylgreme, pelegrim, pilegrim = OFries. pilugrim, pilegrim = Dutch pelgrim = Middle Low German pelegrime, pelgrim, pelgrem = Old High German piligrīm, pilikrīm. Middle High German pilgerīm, pilgrīm, pilgerem, pilgeram, bilgerīn, pilger, Germanpilger = Icel, pīlagrīmr = Swedish pilgrim, = Danish pilegrim, from Old French *pelegrin, pellegrin, pelegri, pelerin, peregrin, French pèlerin = Provencal pellegrin = Spanish Portuguese peregrino = Italian peregrino, pellegrino, from Middle Latin peregrinus, perigrinus, a pilgrim, traveler, foreigner, foreign resident, a suburban resident, Latin peregrinus, a foreigner, stranger, foreign resident, properly adjective, foreign: see peregrine.
  2. from pilgrim, n.
 

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