pilgrimage
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈpɪlɡrɪmɪdʒ/
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peregrinación
- There were already a few Jews in Jerusalem, but pilgrimage was still dangerous.
- go on a pilgrimage
- make a pilgrimage
- a religious pilgrimage
I'm going to another pilgrimage this year in West India.
- I'm going to another pilgrimage this year in West India.
- On both occasions, you have mass Islamic pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia.
- He issued Christian laws, he went on pilgrimage to Rome.
- Interestingly, the people on this pilgrimage are not members of this church, right?
- In medieval times there were pilgrimages to Rome and other sacred places.
- You see temples, mosques, churches everywhere, these famous massive pilgrimages in which, you know, millions of Hindus join into it.
- The observance of Ramadan and the performance of a pilgrimage to Mecca, if that's possible, What's not there?
- And Christians made the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca alongside the Pagan Arabs in in before the coming of Islam.
- And there is evidence that people made pilgrimages to Chaco Canyon, that that's how they that's how they got there and and that the place was.
- It was it was really like a healing pilgrimage for me every single mountain.
Examples
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Two Muslim missions made the pilgrimage to Mecca in a period of less than a year.
Academic text (1993) -
In medieval times there were pilgrimages to Rome and other sacred places.
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A pilgrimage to your past and mine.
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I tell you, if you go on this pilgrimage, you will never return.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm going to another pilgrimage this year in West India.
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Perhaps we should ask about it when we go on pilgrimage, instead of worrying about our own estate.
Fiction book (1992) -
The primary motive of pilgrimage was the transformation of the self through the forgiveness of sin.
Academic text (2008) -
The number of worshipers from the diocese who regularly went on pilgrimage to Medjugorje was already very large.
Academic text (1990) -
Every year, more people spend several months' earnings on pilgrimages to distant deity shrines of national reputation.
Academic text (1992) -
Every year, thousands of people embark on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca during Hajj.
Synonyms
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A trip to a holy place for religious reasons
Compounds
A journey to Jerusalem to visit holy places for religious or spiritual reasons
How Religious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pilgrimage comes from the Latin word peregrinus, which means 'foreigner' or 'traveler'. Think of a pilgrim as someone who goes away from home to a special, often sacred place, so a pilgrimage is that journey to a holy site.