peregrination

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a long journey or period of wandering from place to place

   After another peregrination around the room, he stopped before the painting.

2. 2
   noun

   historical or literary: a pilgrimage or journey through life

   The poem treats life as a spiritual peregrination.

From Late Middle English peregrinacion, through French from Latin peregrinatio, 'travel abroad or pilgrimage,' from peregrinus, 'foreign, travelling, or pilgrim.'

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