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protopilgrimage

noun

Etymology

From proto- + pilgrimage.

  1. inherited from pilgrimage
  2. prefixed as protopilgrimage — “proto + pilgrimage”

Definitions

  1. A journey or quest that predates or approaches being a pilgrimage.

    • Thus, Charlemagne's protopilgrimage brings him to a protosanctuary where the hero's body is already almost a statue,
    • Dante makes this earlier exchange into a protopilgrimage in the purgatorial style and retroactively imbues it with the weight of this later project, his sacrato poema.
    • The Virgin in Rogers Park manifests the inchoate qualities of a protopilgrimage site that occupies municipal land, reaching out toward a proximate urban realm rather than a remote desert or mountain.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA