pilgrimage

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  1. noun A journey to a sacred place or shrine.
  2. noun A long journey or search, especially one of exalted purpose or moral significance.
  3. intransitive verb To go on a pilgrimage.

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  • I had no doubt that some day (next year) I should make my pilgrimage to the birthplace of my people, but a pilgrimage is a planned and contemplated event of the mind and, perhaps, the heart, which this most emphatically was not. —  The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 01
  • THE extraordinary graces which had attended our Saint during her pilgrimage were the prelude of a trial which was awaiting her in Rome. —  The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
  • In a sense my pilgrimage has been the fitting together of many pieces of the puzzle as the Lord continues to gently reveal them. —  The M Blog
  • This pilgrimage was an opportunity for me to add real faces and real places to what had been an abstract knowing of my ancestry. —  uuworld.org: latest stories
  • Meeting old friends and making new ones along the way, this pilgrimage was a celebration of his love of life and nature. —  Clipmarks | Live Clips
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pilgrim ·  journey ·  vow ·  excursion ·  wandering ·  homage ·  sacrifice ·  hymn ·  rite ·  meditation ·  worship ·  offering

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pilgrimage:   pilgrimages
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  1. Early modern English also pilgramage; from Middle English pilgrimage, pylgrymage,pilegrimage, also pelrimage, pelrinage, from Anglo-French pilrymage, Old French pelerinage, French pèlerinage = Italian pellegrinaggio, peregrinaggio, from Middle Latin *peregrinaticum, also, after Roman, peregrinagium, a traveling, voyage, pilgrimage, from peregrinus, a traveler, pilgrim: see pilgrim.
  2. from pilgrimage, n.
 

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/ˈpɪlgrɪmədʒ/
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