pilgriming
pilgriming is the present participle and gerund of pilgrim.
Meaning of pilgrim
Verb
pilgrim (third-person singular simple present pilgrims, present participle pilgriming, simple past and past participle pilgrimed)
- To make a pilgrimage
- [T]o all galleries, churches, sistine chapels, ruins, coliseums, and artistic or dilettante shrines he zealously pilgrimed[.]1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
- To wander; to ramble.
- For that he hath no certain home, or diet, but pilgrims up and down every where, feeding upon all sorts of Plants1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […]...
Noun
pilgriming (plural pilgrimings)
- A journeying; a wandering.
- Accordingly, if we scrutinize these Pilgrimings well, there is perhaps discernible henceforth a certain incipient method in their madness.1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Centre of Indifference”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 117
Forms of pilgriming
| plural | pilgrimings |
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Questions about pilgriming
- What does pilgriming mean?
- Pilgriming means a journeying; a wandering.
- What is pilgriming the present participle and gerund of?
- Pilgriming is the present participle and gerund of pilgrim.
- What part of speech is pilgriming?
- Pilgriming is a noun.
- What is the plural of pilgriming?
- The plural of pilgriming is pilgrimings.
Words near pilgriming in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pilgriming (page history and authors); pilgrim (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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