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hegira

noun as in migration

noun as in trek

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One has no recollection of things that happened before the Hegira.

The snow-drifts were still deep on the hills when, in the first days of March, we commenced our hegira to the far West.

The explanation of course was, that he had been brought as an infant on this famous Hegira of the Selkirk Colonists.

Then came the hegira, which ended, as all the world knows, at Philadelphia.

With this view, and under the modest title of the station of a caravan, he planted this colony in the fiftieth year of the Hegira.

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On this page you'll find 163 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hegira, such as: escape, evacuation, exit, exodus, flight, and passage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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