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sojourner|ˈsʌ-, ˈsɒ-, ˈsəʊdʒənə(r)|
Forms: 5 sogorner, 5–6 soiorner, 6–7 soiourner, 6– sojourner, 7 sojourno(u)r.
[f. sojourn v. + -er1.]
1. One who sojourns; a temporary resident.
14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 689 Hic perhendinator, a sogorner. 1483Cath. Angl. 348/2 A soiorner, perhendinator. 1535Coverdale Lev. xxv. 40 As an hyred seruaunte and as a soiourner shal he be with the. 1539Bible (Great) 1 Chron. xxix. 15 We be but straungers before the, and sogeourners, as were all oure fathers. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. To King §1 Queene Elizabeth was a soiourner in the world in respect of her vnmarried life. 1662Act 14 Chas. II, c. xii. §1 A native Householder, Sojourner, Apprentice, or Servant. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 113 Whoe'er thou art, a native, foreigner, or sojourner. 1836Lane Mod. Egypt. I. vi. 193, I replied that, being merely a sojourner in Egypt, I did not like..to take a wife. 1870R. Anderson Missions Amer. Board III. 422 They were residents and not sojourners.
transf.1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 157 The Scarlet Fever and Sore Throat, which has for some time been an unwelcome sojourner in our neighbourhood.
2. A guest or lodger; a visitor.
1608Shakes. Per. iv. ii. 149 Report what a sojourner we have. 1623Middleton Women beware Women ii. ii. 176 We've no strangers, woman, None but my sojourners and I. 1660Blount Boscobel i. 25 Mr. John Huddleston (a sojourner at Mr. Thomas Whitgreaves).
†b. A boarder living in a house, school, or college, for the purpose of receiving instruction.
a1629Hinde J. Bruen xxxvi. (1641) 114 [He] was very desirous to place them both as sojourners for a season in this gentlemans house. c1672Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 108 Having..obtained a comfortable estate by the great pains he took in pedagogie, and by the many sojournours that he alwaies kept in his house. 1691― Ath. Oxon. I. 13 He [Grocyn] became a Sojournor in Exeter Coll. 1785Gentl. Mag. LV. i. 13 From thence to Oxford, where he [F. Nicholls] was admitted a commoner (or sojourner) of Exeter College [in 1714]. |