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Pilgrim's Progress

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noun

  1. an allegory (1678) by John Bunyan.


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

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2019

At this point the perceptive reader realizes that Rules is essentially an anti-version of Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan's great allegory of salvation.

From Golf Digest • Dec. 17, 2018

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

Last week she had told them the story of Pilgrim’s Progress, drawing on every detail she could remember.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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