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vision quest
noun
, Anthropology.
- (especially among some North American Indians) the ritual seeking of personal communication with the spirit world through visions that are induced by fasting, prayer, and other measures during a time of isolation: typically undertaken by an adolescent male.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vision quest1
First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences
At Temple, Coltrane no longer operated as a jazz artist improvising melodies, but more like a mystic on a vision quest.
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You will embark on a vision quest that refocuses intellectual drives in the coming year.
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Peters had wanted to use tracks from the then up-and-coming Madonna in the 1985 film Vision Quest.
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I once saw Redbird going to White Bear when he was on his vision quest.
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