peregrination

Meanings

1. A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.
2. A journey made by a pilgrim; a pilgrimage; also (uncountable) the making of pilgrimages.
3. A journey or trip, especially by foot; also (uncountable) journeying, travelling.
4. Broad or systematic discussion of a subject; (countable) an instance of this; a discourse.
5. Straying from the main subject in speech or writing; digression; (countable) an instance of this.
6. The state of living abroad temporarily; sojourning; (countable) an act of doing this; a sojourn.

Etymology

From Late Middle English peregrinacioun, peregrinacion (“journey; pilgrimage; (figuratively) human journey through life”), from Anglo-Norman peregrinaciun (“human journey through life”), peregrination (“pilgrimage; overseas travel”), and Old French peregrinacion, peregrination (“pilgrimage; overseas travel”) (modern French pérégrination), and from their etymon Latin peregrīnātiō (“overseas sojourn or travel; (Late Latin) pilgrimage; sojourn; human journey through life”), from peregrīnātus (“living or travelling overseas”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns). Peregrīnātus is the perfect passive participle of peregrīnor (“to live or travel overseas; to be overseas; to roam, rove; to be a stranger”), from peregrīnus (“alien, foreign; exotic”) (from peregrē̆ (“abroad; from abroad; heading abroad”) + -īnus (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’)) + -or (suffix forming first-person singular present passive indicative verbs).