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UK
/pˈɪlɡɹɪmɪdʒ/
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[ US /ˈpɪɫɡɹəmədʒ, ˈpɪɫɡɹəmɪdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪɫɡɹəmədʒ, ˈpɪɫɡɹəmɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
- a journey to a sacred place
How To Use pilgrimage In A Sentence
- This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
- Names will be taken from those who intend travelling on next year's pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- The father then undertakes his own pilgrimage along the same route. Times, Sunday Times
- Each group maintained a dignified silence as the marchers passed on their pilgrimage to uphold Republican martyrology.
- It dawned today dankly raining, but by mid morning and my coffee pilgrimage there was sunlight, intermittently, and a warming breeze from the south.
- It is certain that Byron had begun the fourth canto, and written some thirty or more stanzas, before Hobhouse rejoined him at his villa of La Mira on the banks of the Brenta, in July, 1817; and it would seem that, although he had begun by saying "that he was too short a time in Rome for it," he speedily overcame his misgivings, and accomplished, as he believed, the last "fytte" of his pilgrimage. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
- ‘In this pilgrimage-based show, we feature old and historic temples, churches, gurdwaras and masjids,’ he says.
- Ziller had pilgrimaged several times to Africa, place of his birth. Another Roadside Attraction
- A "palmer" is someone who wears a palm leaf as testimony of having taken a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Maggie's Farm
- Pilgrim (Ya Hájj) is a polite address even to those who have not pilgrimaged. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night