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Definition of Pilgrim
Pilgrim
A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

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.

Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.

To journey; to wander; to ramble.


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Pilgrim Quotations
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Carl Jung

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
e. e. cummings

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.
George Santayana

I feel like a pilgrim from the friggin' '20s!
Nicole Polizzi

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
Henry Cabot Lodge

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.
Johann Arndt

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
Chauncey Depew


Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
Peace Pilgrim

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Pilgrim Translations
pilgrim in Dutch is pelgrim, bedevaartganger
pilgrim in German is Pilger
pilgrim in Italian is pellegrino
pilgrim in Spanish is peregrino
pilgrim in Swedish is pilgrim






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