peregrination
/ˌpɛɹəɡɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.
Archaic; Countable
noun
A journey made by a pilgrim; a pilgrimage; also (uncountable) the making of pilgrimages.
Archaic; Countable
noun
Broad or systematic discussion of a subject; (countable) an instance of this; a discourse.
Uncountable
noun
Straying from the main subject in speech or writing; digression; (countable) an instance of this.
Uncountable
noun
The state of living abroad temporarily; sojourning; (countable) an act of doing this; a sojourn.
Obsolete; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It is true our life in this vvorld is not called a baniſhment any vvhere in the Scripture: but a pilgrimage, a peregrination, a travell; but perigrinatio cum ignominia conjunctu, exilium; he that leaves his Countrey becauſe he vvas aſhamed, or afraid to return to it, or to ſtay in it, is a baniſhed man."
- "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."
- "By what I have touch’d in the Chapter of the Elms, concerning the peregrination of that Tree into Spain (where even in Plinie’s time there were none, and where now they are in great abundance) why ſhould we not more generally endeavour to propagate the Ilex amongſt us; […]"
- "[O]ur linguist having received such extraordinary rudiments towards a good education, was afterwards trained up in every thing that becomes a gentleman; wearing off by little and little all the vicious habits and practices that he had been used to in the course of his peregrinations."
- "[T]hey had made what might be received as one or two tolerable jests on the subject before they had advanced far on their peregrination."
- "Thus it has been my hap, in my peregrinations about this great metropolis, to blunder upon a scene which unfolded to me some of the mysteries of the book making craft, and at once put my astonishment on this head at an end."
Etymology
From Late Middle English peregrinacioun, peregrinacion (“journey; pilgrimage; (figuratively) human journey through life”), 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). 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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: peregrinacioun, peregrinaciun, peregrinacion, peregrīnātiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpɛɹəɡɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
- British English: /ˌpɛɹɪɡɹɪˈneɪʃn̩/