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Sojourn   /sˈoʊdʒərn/   Listen
noun
Sojourn  n.  A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land. "Though long detained In that obscure sojourn."



verb
Sojourn  v. i.  (past & past part. sojourned; pres. part. sojourning)  To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry. "Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there." "Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn." "The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days."






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"Sojourn" Quotes from Famous Books



... refreshed by their short sojourn, and by the entire change of diet which they enjoyed during their stay, they again set sail, and, making their way to the southward and westward, at length fell in with that beneficent wind which blows permanently from the north-east, and which in after-years came to be known as the Trade Wind. ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood

... that the house was full at Saulsby, although the sojourn of the visitors would necessarily be so short. There were three or four there on their way on to Loughlinter, like himself,—Mr. Bonteen and Mr. Ratler, with Mr. Palliser, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his wife,—and there ...
— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope

... most valued friends, the late Serjeant Bellasis, had taken the Villa Sainte Cecile in his neighbourhood, and there was a circle of the best French families in and around Hyeres, whose names must not be omitted when we speak of Mr. Hope-Scott's and Lady Victoria's annual sojourn in the little capital of the Hesperides. Among these was the late Due de Luynes, so well known for his researches into the hydrography of the Dead Sea, Count Poniatowski, Madame Duquesne, M. de Butiny, Maire of Hyeres, M. and Madame de Walmer, and others. Cardinal Newman has noticed, ...
— Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 • Robert Ornsby

... the press of Putnam a new and carefully revised edition of his Swallow Barn, or a Sojourn in the Old Dominion, one of the most pleasant books illustrative of local manners and rural life that has ever been written. It is more like Irving's Bracebridge Hall than any other work we can think of, and ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various

... they experienced the utmost kindness from the members of that church, who, learning the occasion of their sojourn in the village, poured upon them their hospitality. Several wished to remove her to their dwellings. They had a "Busy Bee," and made up everything in an infant's wardrobe for her. She opened her ...
— Bertha and Her Baptism • Nehemiah Adams


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