peregrination

noun

1. (archaic, countable)A person's life regarded as a temporary stay on earth and a journey to the afterlife.

   “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.”

2. (archaic, broadly, countable)A journey made by a pilgrim; a pilgrimage; also (uncountable) the making of pilgrimages.

   “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.”

3. (broadly, countable)A journey or trip, especially by foot; also (uncountable) journeying, travelling.

   “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.”

   “Thus it has been my hap, in my peregrinations about this great metropolis, to blunder upon a scene which unfolded to me some of the mysteries of the book making craft, and at once put my astonishment on this head at an end.”

   “Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king.”

4. (broadly, figuratively, uncountable)Broad or systematic discussion of a subject; (countable) an instance of this; a discourse.
5. (broadly, figuratively, uncountable)Straying from the main subject in speech or writing; digression; (countable) an instance of this.
6. (broadly, obsolete, uncountable)The state of living abroad temporarily; sojourning; (countable) an act of doing this; a sojourn.