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pilgrimages

[pil-gruh-mij] Origin

pil·grim·age

[pil-gruh-mij] noun, verb, -aged, -ag·ing.
noun
1.
a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion: a pilgrimage to Lourdes.
2.
Islam.
a.
the Pilgrimage, hajj.
3.
any long journey, especially one undertaken as a quest or for a votive purpose, as to pay homage: a pilgrimage to the grave of Shakespeare.
verb (used without object)
4.
to make a pilgrimage.

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1200–50; Middle English pilegrimage (see pilgrim, -age); replacing earlier pelrimage, alteration of Old French pelerinage


3. excursion, tour. See trip.

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pilgrimage
mid-13c., pelrimage; see pilgrim.
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