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Pilgrim's Progress

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noun

  1. an allegory (1678) by John Bunyan.


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Will he take the Pilgrim’s Progress path to greatness and spiritual fulfillment?

From Golf Digest • Mar. 24, 2020

Kavanaugh attended Yale College and Law School, and then began a conservative Pilgrim’s Progress.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2019

All these manifestations of anti-Jewish feeling form the backdrop for a didactic autobiography, a kind of "Pilgrim's Progress" in which Dershowitz plays Christian, wandering through a landscape flickering with old, familiar demons.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2018

It is believed to be the most published book in the English language after the Bible, the works of Shakespeare and John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2018

“The idea of being afraid of you! Well, you see we used to play Pilgrim’s Progress, and we have been going on with it in earnest, all winter and summer.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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