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Pilgrim   /pˈɪlgrəm/  /pˈɪlgrɪm/   Listen
noun
Pilgrim  n.  
1.
A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. "Strangers and pilgrims on the earth."
2.
One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.



verb
Pilgrim  v. i.  To journey; to wander; to ramble. (R.)



adjective
Pilgrim  adj.  Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps."
Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland.






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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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