Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

protopilgrimage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pro-topil-grim-age
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A journey or quest that predates or approaches being a pilgrimage.

Example Sentences

"Thus, Charlemagne's protopilgrimage brings him to a protosanctuary where the hero's body is already almost a statue,"
"Dante makes this earlier exchange into a protopilgrimage in the purgatorial style and retroactively imbues it with the weight of this later project, his sacrato poema."
"The Virgin in Rogers Park manifests the inchoate qualities of a protopilgrimage site that occupies municipal land, reaching out toward a proximate urban realm rather than a remote desert or mountain."

Etymology

From proto- + pilgrimage.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: proto

Inflected Forms

protopilgrimages (plural)

Questions

What does protopilgrimage mean?: A journey or quest that predates or approaches being a pilgrimage.
Where does protopilgrimage come from?: From proto- + pilgrimage.

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