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Pilgrimage   /pˈɪlgrəmədʒ/  /pˈɪlgrəmɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Pilgrimage  n.  
1.
The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. "The days of the years of my pilgrimage."
2.
A tedious and wearisome time. "In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage."
Synonyms: Journey; tour; excursion. See Journey.





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"Pilgrimage" Quotes from Famous Books



... you will reproach me with the prolixity of these details. The subject is attractive to me, and I feel that you will accompany me with pleasure in my pilgrimage, from chapel to shrine, dwelling with me in contemplation on the relics of ancient skill and the memorials of the piety of the departed. Nor must it be forgotten, that the hand of the spoliator is falling heavily ...
— Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. I. (of 2) • Dawson Turner
... round her heart; her eyes fixed themselves on the skylight, as though beseeching it to break and let in sound. A cat, making a pilgrimage from roof to roof, the four dark moving spots of its paws, the faint blur of its body, was all she saw. And suddenly, unable to bear it any ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... lonely studies at Heidelberg during the winter, but with the spring, when the almond-trees were blossoming, the spirit of youth revived and he again took up his pilgrimage and began the sketches published some years later as the consecutive story of "Hyperion." In the opening chapter of that book he says: "The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. ...
— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields
... Lear's leper-father; to the Diary of the too-much-neglected Celia Fiennes; to Pepys[55] and Grammont's Memoirs; to the days when hapless Catherine of Braganza, with the baleful "belle Stewart" in her train, made fruitless pilgrimage to Bladud's spring as a remedy against sterility. He sketches, with due acknowledgments to Goldsmith's unique little book, the biography of that archquack, poseur, and very clever organiser, Mr. Richard Nash, the first real Master ...
— De Libris: Prose and Verse • Austin Dobson
... were now never bathed in those joyous tears, with which a burst of frank and hearty laughter used of old to adorn their silky lashes, when the comic coolness of Dagobert, or some funny trick of Spoil-sport, cheered them in the course of their long and weary pilgrimage. ...
— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue


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