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  • verb Present participle of pilgrim.

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Examples

  • And if pilgriming is to do you good, you ought to do it properly.

    The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

  • Even my own quarters are rented out to a horde of scaly horrors who are pilgriming to End of Nothing.

    Project Pope Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- 1981

  • If the body is nothing but a temporary habita - tion for a soul pilgriming through earthly and other than earthly existences towards a final reward or pun - ishment, then our concern must be to “care for the soul.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968

  • The spirit of the road and of the chase was in his veins, and he was aglow with "the taste for pilgriming."

    Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

  • He had longed unspeakably to go pilgriming, and he had forthwith been permitted to leave the world behind with its thickets and thresholds, its hesitations and confusions, its marching armies, breakfasts, friendships and the like, and to live on the edge of what will be.

    Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

  • The humming bird, the swallows, the purple martins, the chimney swifts, also seem to be a-pilgriming.

    Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

  • Along this valley Chaucer's Immortals may have gone a pilgriming, and in this bosky wood Robin Hood may have trained his band.

    Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

  • And if pilgriming is to do you good, you ought to do it properly.

    The Wouldbegoods 1891

  • It had been all over the world with him, and had been pilgriming like that for years and years.

    Following the Equator, Part 5 Mark Twain 1872

  • It had been all over the world with him, and had been pilgriming like that for years and years.

    Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

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