Entertainment / Literature / Pilgrimage: An act of spiritual devotion or penance in which an individual travels without material comforts to a distant holy place. The journey often has spiritual overtones--it may symbolize a journey to the celestial city of heaven or repeat the journey of a saint or biblical hero. Pilgrimage has become a prominent symbol in both Western Christian writings and Middle-Eastern Islamic writings. John Bunyon's Pilgrim's Progress and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are two literary examples using the pilgrimage motif.
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Pilgrimage Verb Synonyms: hajj or hadj, holy expedition, crusade, expedition, journey, trek, voyage, tour, trip, excursion
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Entertainment / Literature / Weltschmerz: According to Shipley's Dictionary of World Literature (623), Jean Paul (1763-1825) coined this German phrase to refer to the sentimental pessimism one feels--the sorrow, disillusionment, and disconten MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Pompé: In classical Greco-Roman culture, many major festivals were marked by a pomp???©. A pomp???© was a combination of a parade, pilgrimage, and religious procession Worshipper would don special garb, li MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Metafiction: Fiction in which the subject of the story is the act or art of storytelling of itself, especially when such material breaks up the illusion of 'reality' in a work. An example is John Fowles's The Fren MORE