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pilgrimage

[ pil-gruh-mij ]

noun

  1. a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion:

    a pilgrimage to Lourdes.

  2. Islam.
    1. the Pilgrimage, hajj.
  3. any long journey, especially one undertaken as a quest or for a votive purpose, as to pay homage:

    a pilgrimage to the grave of Shakespeare.

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verb (used without object)

pilgrimaged, pilgrimaging.
  1. to make a pilgrimage.

pilgrimage

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noun

  1. a journey to a shrine or other sacred place
  2. a journey or long search made for exalted or sentimental reasons
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. intr to make a pilgrimage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pilgrimage1

First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English pilegrimage ( pilgrim, -age ); replacing earlier pelrimage, alteration of Old French pelerinage
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See trip 1.
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Example Sentences

Another of his wife's cousins, a well-respected businessman who had performed the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, also died.

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He changed his mind after a “spiritual pilgrimage,†as he put it, to the theater in Petaluma where Bradley Nowell played his final gig.

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Believers by the thousands used to come to the Altadena shrine on pilgrimages, and water was brought from Lourdes to replenish its pool.

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For relatives of the missing, the barren site outside Teuchitlán has become a pilgrimage site, a place to pay respects to those lost.

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A new venue will have be found for the annual pilgrimage, but Justin admitted it will be hard to replace the "special and unique" Oakwood setting.

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