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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

In her gritty first memoir, “Enter Talking,” published in 1986, she describes her path as a Pilgrim’s Progress of heartbreak and ambition.

From The New Yorker Feb. 16, 2015

We had already gone through the first, Pilgrim's Progress.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

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