Jerusalemganger, noun
- Forms:
- Also Jeruzalemganger.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans Jerusalem (earlier Dutch Jeruzalem) Jerusalem + ganger goer.
historical
A member of a religious sect among the Voortrekkers (see Voortrekker noun sense 1) who believed that the Great Trek would lead to the discovery of an overland route to Jerusalem. Usually in the plural, used collectively.
[1877 T. Baines Gold Regions of S.-E. Afr. 83In the earliest migrations of the Dutch Boers from the Cape Colony they entertained hopes of being able to reach the Beloofte land, i.e. the promised land or Canaan...When the avowed Jerusalem trekkers or pilgrims came to the Maghaliquain and found it flowing north, they at once christened it the Nile.]
1955 T.V. Bulpin Storm over Tvl 24The famed Jerusalem-gangers of Adam Enslin..were [so] impressed by the appearance and legends of this summit that they considered it to be the ruin of one of the pyramids, and confirmation positive of their notion that they had reached the upper reaches of the Nile.
A member of a religious sect among the Voortrekkers (see Voortrekker noun sense 1) who believed that the Great Trek would lead to the discovery of an overland route to Jerusalem. Usually in the plural, used collectively.
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