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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

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

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

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

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

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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