Peregrination

Quick meaning: Peregrination is a noun meaning (countable, chiefly theology, archaic) A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.

Meaning

(countable, chiefly theology, archaic) A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.

More Meanings

1. A journey made by a pilgrim; a pilgrimage; also (uncountable) the making of pilgrimages.
2. A journey or trip, especially by foot; also (uncountable) journeying, travelling.
3. Broad or systematic discussion of a subject; (countable) an instance of this; a discourse.
4. Straying from the main subject in speech or writing; digression; (countable) an instance of this.
5. The state of living abroad temporarily; sojourning; (countable) an act of doing this; a sojourn.

Example Sentences

[T]hey had made what might be received as one or two tolerable jests on the subject before they had advanced far on their peregrination.

Thus it has been my hap, in my peregrinations about this great metropolis, to blunder upon a scene which unfolded to me some of the mysteries of the book making craft, and at once put my astonishment on this head at an end.

By what I have touch’d in the Chapter of the Elms, concerning the peregrination of that Tree into Spain (where even in Plinie’s time there were none, and where now they are in great abundance) why ſhould we not more generally endeavour to propagate the Ilex amongſt us; […]

I suppose that nowadays the red-faced farmers, whose invariable topic (so a friendly guard who understood Welsh told me) was sheep and their prices, find their own cars or the buses more convenient than a Western Region main line for their short-distance peregrinations to market.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for peregrination

Depending on context, synonyms include perambulation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pilgrimage, pilgriming, peregrinism, pilgrime, perambulation, peripatetick.

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