All 3 Uses of
pilgrim
in
Middlemarch
- She was disposed rather to accuse the intolerable narrowness and the purblind conscience of the society around her: and Celia was no longer the eternal cherub, but a thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the "Pilgrim's Progress."†
Chpt 1
- As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite?†
Chpt 2 *
- —Pilgrim's Progress.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(pilgrim with a lowercase "p") someone who journeys to a special place -- typically a difficult journey to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion