Word of the Day – Hegira

• Noun:  Hegira
  1. a journey especially when undertaken to escape from a dangerous or undesirable situation
• Synonyms:
  1. abandonment
  2. adieu
  3. bow out
  4. congé
  5. decampment
  6. desertion
  7. egress
  8. egression.
• Usage:
  1. “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:
  1. While reading Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children.

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