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Pilgrim

noun

Someone who journeys in foreign lands.

One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620. Synonym: Pilgrim Father.

Someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion.

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"Pilgrim" Quotes from Famous Books

... description of Shelley himself following Byron and Moore—the "Pilgrim of Eternity," and Ierne's "sweetest lyrist of her saddest wrong"—to the couch where Keats lies dead. There is both pathos and unconscious irony in his making these two poets the chief mourners, when we remember what Byron wrote about Keats in "Don Juan", ...

— Percy Bysshe Shelley • John Addington Symonds

... Christ Confessions of St. Augustine (Dr. Pusey) The Koran (portions of) Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Comte's Catechism of Positive Philosophy Pascal's Pensees Butler's Analogy of Religion Taylor's Holy Living and Dying Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress ...

— The Pleasures of Life • Sir John Lubbock

... with the light step of a liberated captive; and, like John Bunyan's Pilgrim, could have found in my heart to sing as I went on my way. It seemed as if my gaiety had accumulated while suppressed, and that I was, in my present joyous mood, entitled to expend the savings of the previous week. But just as I ...

— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott

... infernal bazaar on at the Cecil. Look here, old man,' he addressed Henry: 'I've been reading your Love in Babylon again, and I fancied I could make a little curtain-raiser out of it—out of the picture incident, you know. I mentioned the idea to Pilgrim, of the Prince's Theatre, and ...

— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett

... work, Bentivolio represents "Good will," and Urania "Heavenly light." "Oceana" and "Bentivolio" are didactic treatises rather than romances; the first is a political treatise, and the second a religious treatise, an enormous morality in prose. "The Pilgrim's Progress" must be placed among religious literature properly so-called, as being ...

— The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare • J. J. Jusserand

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