pilgrimage
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English pilgrimage. By surface analysis, pilgrim + -age.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pilgrimage (plural pilgrimages)
- A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.
- In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 187:
- 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.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 204:
- It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Pilgrimage Codex entry:
- Quarians are surgically fitted with their various immunity-boosted implants in preparation for leaving on Pilgrimage.
- (by extension) 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.
- 2023 August 5, Ben Sisario, “How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Conquered the World”, in New York Times[1]:
- For fans, the shows are a pilgrimage, and a rediscovery of the joys of mass gatherings.
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Translations edit
religious journey, or one to a sacred place
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Verb edit
pilgrimage (third-person singular simple present pilgrimages, present participle pilgrimaging, simple past and past participle pilgrimaged)
- To go on a pilgrimage.
- 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 78:
- in descent, as now, he always had a holy sense of having pilgerimaged, of returning having seen behind a veil.
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Translations edit
to go on a pilgrimage
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Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French peligrinage, pelrimage, variants of pelerinage (“pilgrimage”); equivalent to pilegrim + -age.
Noun edit
pilgrimage (plural pilgrimages)
- pilgrimage
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 12-14.
- Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;- Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,
And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
To distant shrines well known in distant lands.
- Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 12-14.
Descendants edit
- English: pilgrimage
- Scots: pilgrimag, pilgrimage, pilgramage