Definition of Pilgrimage

1. Noun. A journey to a sacred place.

Exact synonyms: Pilgrim's Journey
Generic synonyms: Journey, Journeying
Specialized synonyms: Hadj, Haj, Hajj

Definition of Pilgrimage

1. n. The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.

Definition of Pilgrimage

1. Noun. A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey. ¹

2. Noun. (context: by extension) A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pilgrimage

1. [v -AGED, -AGING, -AGES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilgrimage

pilferage
pilferages
pilfered
pilferer
pilferers
pilferies
pilfering
pilferproof
pilfers
pilfery
pilgarlic
pilgarlick
pilgarlics
pilgrim
pilgrim's journey
pilgrimage (current term)
pilgrimaged
pilgrimages
pilgrimaging
pilgrimize
pilgrimized
pilgrimizes
pilgrimizing
pilgrims
pili
pili annulati
pilicide
pilicides
pilidia
pilidium

Literary usage of Pilgrimage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"HAROLD'S FOREIGN TRAVELS AXD pilgrimage. THE pilgrimage of Harold to Rome, and, still more, his studies of the political state of Gaul, are among the ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The Catholics of the city have of late years reorganized the pilgrimage on the ... Padua, Italy, is the centre of a pilgrimage to the relics of St. Anthony. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"No canon was to make more than one pilgrimage beyond the seas in his own ... They who sin more freely when away from home or who go on pilgrimage to succeed ..."

4. England in the Age of Wycliffe by George Macaulay Trevelyan (1920)
"Such a wish was gratified by pilgrimage to the shrines of Italy and the East. ... Another motive for pilgrimage, as perennial as the craving for travel, ..."

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