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pilgrimage

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Etymology

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From Middle English pilgrimage. By surface analysis, pilgrim +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpɪlɡɹɪmɪd͡ʒ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: pil‧gri‧mage

Noun

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pilgrimage (plural pilgrimages)

  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.
    • 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.
    • 2018 December 31, Paula Chao, “God of Earth welcomes the Matsu pilgrimage in person?”, in Radio Taiwan International‎[1], archived from the original on 23 September 2023:
      One of the most popular religious figures in Taiwan is Matsu, the Goddess of the Sea. The many temples dedicated in her honor will host massive pilgrimages every year in the spring. But one temple – located Tung-hsiao Township, Miaoli County -- has no set schedule or destination for its Matsu procession. In other words, organizers use divination to decide where Matsu wants to go and how long she wants to stay each year.
  2. (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.
    • 2005 April, Timothy W. Ryback, “The Hitler Shrine”, in The Atlantic‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 August 2016:
      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.
    • 2023 August 5, Ben Sisario, “How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Conquered the World”, in The New York Times‎[3], archived from the original on 19 August 2023:
      For fans, the shows are a pilgrimage, and a rediscovery of the joys of mass gatherings.
    • 2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York‎[4], archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
      Earlier this year, the resident was granted permission to install a gate to deter them from making what has become a sort of pilgrimage [Carrie Bradshaw's stoop].

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Verb

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pilgrimage (third-person singular simple present pilgrimages, present participle pilgrimaging, simple past and past participle pilgrimaged)

  1. 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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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French peligrinage, pelrimage, variants of pelerinage (“pilgrimage”); equivalent to pilegrim +‎ -age.

Noun

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pilgrimage (plural pilgrimages)

  1. 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.

Descendants

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