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peregrination

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English

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WOTD – 19 October 2021

Etymology

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From Late Middle English peregrinacioun, peregrinacion (“journey; pilgrimage; (figuratively) human journey through life”),[1] from Anglo-Norman peregrinaciun (“human journey through life”), peregrination (“pilgrimage; overseas travel”), and Old French peregrinacion, peregrination (“pilgrimage; overseas travel”) (modern French pérégrination), and from their etymon Latin peregrīnātiō (“overseas sojourn or travel; (Late Latin) pilgrimage; sojourn; human journey through life”), from peregrīnātus (“living or travelling overseas”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns).[2] Peregrīnātus is the perfect passive participle of peregrīnor (“to live or travel overseas; to be overseas; to roam, rove; to be a stranger”), from peregrīnus (“alien, foreign; exotic”) (from peregrē̆ (“abroad; from abroad; heading abroad”) + -īnus (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’)) + -or (suffix forming first-person singular present passive indicative verbs).

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Noun

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peregrination (countable and uncountable, plural peregrinations)

  1. (countable, chiefly theology, archaic) A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife. [from late 15th c.]
    • 1618 April 22, John Donne, “A Sermon Preached at White-hall Aprill 12. 1618.”, in XXVI. Sermons (Never before Publish’d) Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine John Donne, […], London: […] Thomas Newcomb, […], published 1661, →OCLC, page 179:
      It is true our life in this world is not called a baniſhment any where in the Scripture: but a pilgrimage, a peregrination, a travell; but perigrinatio cum ignominia conjunctu, exilium; he that leaves his Countrey becauſe he was aſhamed, or afraid to return to it, or to ſtay in it, is a baniſhed man.
  2. (by extension)
    1. (countable, archaic) A journey made by a pilgrim; a pilgrimage; also (uncountable) the making of pilgrimages. [from 15th c.]
      • 1760, Edmund Burke, “An Essay towards an Abridgment of the English History. […]”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume X, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, book IIbook II, chapter V (Succession of Kings from Alfred to Harold), page 309:
        According to the mode of that time, he [Cnut the Great] made a pilgrimage to Rome, with a view to expiate the crimes, which paved his way to the throne; but he made a good use of this peregrination, and returned full of the observations he had made in the country, through which he had passed, which he turned to the benefit of his extensive dominions.
    2. (countable) A journey or trip, especially by foot; also (uncountable) journeying, travelling. [from mid 16th c.]
    3. (figuratively)
      1. (uncountable) Broad or systematic discussion of a subject; (countable) an instance of this; a discourse. [from early 17th c.]
        Synonym: perambulation
      2. (uncountable) Straying from the main subject in speech or writing; digression; (countable) an instance of this. [from mid 20th c.]
        Synonym: perambulation
    4. (uncountable, obsolete) The state of living abroad temporarily; sojourning; (countable) an act of doing this; a sojourn. [17th–18th c.]
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References

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  1. ^ “peregrināciǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ Compare “peregrination, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2021; “peregrination, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French, from Latin peregrīnātiō (“journey”), from peregrīnor (“sojourn”).

Noun

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peregrination f (plural peregrinations)

  1. pilgrimage
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