pilgrimage

CEFRB2

/ˈpɪlɡɹɪmɪd͡ʒ/

noun

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noun
A journey to a special or holy place.
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noun
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A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.

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Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.
In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.
It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.

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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.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 187
It was like a weary pilgrimage amongst hints for nightmares.
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,...
Quarians are surgically fitted with their various immunity-boosted implants in preparation for leaving on Pilgrimage.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians: Pilgrimage Codex entry
in descent, as now, he always had a holy sense of having pilgerimaged, of returning having seen behind a veil.
2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 78
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.
2005 April 26, Timothy W. Ryback, “The Hitler Shrine”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN

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