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Pilgrim   /pˈɪlgrəm/  /pˈɪlgrɪm/   Listen
Pilgrim

noun
1.
Someone who journeys in foreign lands.
2.
One of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620.  Synonym: Pilgrim Father.
3.
Someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion.



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"Pilgrim" Quotes from Famous Books



... their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung: There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile repair To ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... and its vigorous irrationality are nowhere better displayed than in questions of conduct. There is a character in the PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, one Mr. LINGER-AFTER-LUST with whom I fancy we are all on speaking terms; one famous among the famous for ingenuity of hope up to and beyond the moment of defeat; one who, after eighty years ...
— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the present grow into the habit of visiting it, not like a good workman repairing thither to execute the labours imposed upon him by the commands of to-day, but as a too passive, too credulous pilgrim, content idly to contemplate beautiful, motionless ruins—then, the more glorious, the happier that our past may have been, with all the more suspicion should it be ...
— The Buried Temple • Maurice Maeterlinck
... is down can't fall any lower, as it says in Pilgrim's Progress. Walk over me some more, and then maybe you'll feel better. What the d—There, I'm at it again. Clarice, it might improve me if you would mix a little kindness with your corrections; handle me as if you loved me, like the old fisherman with his worms, you know. It discourages ...
— A Pessimist - In Theory and Practice • Robert Timsol
... boy hath largely grown; Weave him fine raiment, fitting to be shown; Fair robes beseem the pilgrim, as the priest Goes he not with us to ...
— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)


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