- Noun: Hegira
- a journey especially when undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable situation
- Synonyms:
- abandonment
- adieu
- bow out
- congé
- decampment
- desertion
- egress
- egression.
- Usage:
- “Nevertheless, though it might mean that they must again pursue their weary hegira, the dominant race did not appear to have crowded the available living space.”
- Encountered:
- While reading Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children.
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