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Meaning of pilgrim's progress | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A morally or spiritually testing journey, often filled with obstacles, learning experiences, and eventual transformation or enlightenment.
  2. Any slow, difficult, dour or funless journey.
  3. Moral, spiritual, meaningful, or redemptive progress.

Examples

“Lady Rosie - so mad-cap in the gaiety of summer's full-blowing that even the organizer of the prim-and-properness forgot about it. Thus what has been planned to be a sort of pilgrim's progress turned out to be a fairy frolic[.]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

pilgrim's pumpkin pilgrim's scallop pilgrim's shell pilgrim's staff Pilgrimage Pilgrimaged

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