peregrination

[ per-i-gruh-ney-shuhn ]

noun

1. travel from one place to another, especially on foot.

   Synonyms: expedition, excursion, trip

2. a course of travel; journey.

   Synonyms: expedition, excursion, trip

Word History and Origins

Origin of peregrination¹

1425–75; late Middle English peregrinacioun (< Middle French peregrinacion ) < Latin peregrīnātiōn- (stem of peregrīnātiō ) a traveling abroad. See peregrinate, -ion

Example Sentences

A jaunt to the Waffle House across the street required a peregrination across a hot ocean of tarmac.

From Los Angeles Times

Appearing as track No. 2 on her pivotal “Black Christ of the Andes” album, her post-Catholic conversion masterpiece, Williams’s cover of the “Porgy and Bess” trickster-villain Sportin’ Life’s ode to religious skepticism eschews the original’s vaudevillian flash in favor of offering a brooding ramble, a gently swinging peregrination that traverses hills and moves in and out of dark valleys to the rhythm of philosophical questioning and questing.

From New York Times

This extravagant peregrination of a novel wanders back and forth through three decades of cruelty, violence, corruption, blackmail, debauchery and lust for revenge.

From Washington Post

Finding community and disagreement in a space in which talking to strangers might be more welcome than at, say, my local coffee shop is particularly alluring peregrination.

From Salon

Amal’s performance that night, with its narrative of a weary child’s peregrination through Dumbo to the glass-walled carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park, should have been delicate and gorgeous.

From New York Times