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protopilgrimage

protopilgrimage noun: a journey or quest that predates or approaches being a pilgrimage.

Noun

protopilgrimage (plural protopilgrimages)

  1. A journey or quest that predates or approaches being a pilgrimage.
    • Thus, Charlemagne's protopilgrimage brings him to a protosanctuary where the hero's body is already almost a statue,1991, Eugene Vance, “Style and value: From soldier to pilgrim in the Song of Roland”, in Yale French Studies
    • Dante makes this earlier exchange into a protopilgrimage in the purgatorial style and retroactively imbues it with the weight of this later project, his sacrato poema.2020, David Bowe, Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante, page 144

Forms of protopilgrimage

pluralprotopilgrimages

Origin of protopilgrimage

From proto- + pilgrimage.

Questions about protopilgrimage

What does protopilgrimage mean?
Protopilgrimage means a journey or quest that predates or approaches being a pilgrimage.
What part of speech is protopilgrimage?
Protopilgrimage is a noun.
What is the plural of protopilgrimage?
The plural of protopilgrimage is protopilgrimages.

Words near protopilgrimage in the dictionary

  1. protophysics
  2. protophyte
  3. protophytes
  4. protophytic
  5. protophytology
  6. protopilgrimage
  7. protopilgrimages
  8. protopine
  9. protopines
  10. protoplanet
  11. protoplanetary

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