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/pˈɪlgrəm/ /pˈɪlgrɪm/ Listen

noun

Pilgrim n.

A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. "Strangers and pilgrims on the earth."

One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.

verb

Pilgrim v. i. To journey; to wander; to ramble. (R.)

adjective

Pilgrim adj. Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps."

Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland.

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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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