pilgrimage

name

1. The 22nd sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

noun

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

1. A journey made to a sacred place, or a religious journey.

   “In the Muslim faith, the pilgrimage to Mecca is known as the Hajj.”

   “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.”

2. A visit to any site revered or associated with a meaningful event.

   “Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.”

   “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.”

verb

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

1. To go on a pilgrimage.

   “in descent, as now, he always had a holy sense of having pilgerimaged, of returning having seen behind a veil.”