peregrination

1. (countable, chiefly theology, archaic) A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.Examples: "It is true our life in this vvorld is not called a baniſhment any vvhere in the Scripture: but a pilgrimage, a peregrination, a travell; but perigrinatio cum ignominia conjunctu, exilium; he that leaves his Countrey becauſe he vvas aſhamed, or afraid to return to it, or to ſtay in it, is a baniſhed man."archaiccountable

2. (by extension)Examples: "According to the mode of that time, he [Cnut the Great] made a pilgrimage to Rome, with a view to expiate the crimes, which paved his way to the throne; but he made a good use of this peregrination, and returned full of the observations he had made in the country, through which he had passed, which he turned to the benefit of his extensive dominions."archaicbroadlycountable

3. (by extension)Examples: "By what I have touch’d in the Chapter of the Elms, concerning the peregrination of that Tree into Spain (where even in Plinie’s time there were none, and where now they are in great abundance) why ſhould we not more generally endeavour to propagate the Ilex amongſt us; […]"; "[O]ur linguist having received such extraordinary rudiments towards a good education, was afterwards trained up in every thing that becomes a gentleman; wearing off by little and little all the vicious habits and practices that he had been used to in the course of his peregrinations."; "[T]hey had made what might be received as one or two tolerable jests on the subject before they had advanced far on their peregrination."broadlycountable

4. (by extension)Synonyms: perambulationbroadlyfigurativelyuncountable

5. (by extension)Synonyms: perambulationbroadlyfigurativelyuncountable

6. (by extension)broadlyobsoleteuncountable