pilgrimage

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

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

   • In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.
   • Rome, the mighty mother of the Christian faith, whose amphitheatres had been red with the blood of the saints, and where the pilgrimage and the miracle still testified to the truth.
   • It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.
2. 2

   A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.

   • Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.
   • The Berghof, too, was largely reduced to ash, sparing it the indignity of the tour guides Hitler so dreaded, and leaving a place of pilgrimage for future generations of Hitler worshippers—exactly how Adolf Hitler would have wanted it.
   • For fans, the shows are a pilgrimage, and a rediscovery of the joys of mass gatherings.
3. 3

   To go on a pilgrimage.

   • in descent, as now, he always had a holy sense of having pilgerimaged, of returning having seen behind a veil.
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   1. 4

      The 22nd sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

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