sojournn.
/ˈsɒdʒən/, /ˈsʌdʒən/, /ˈsəʊdʒən/, /ˈsɒdʒəːn/, /ˈsʌdʒəːn/, /ˈsəʊdʒəːn/, U.S. /ˈsoʊˌdʒərn/ 1. † b. A delay; a digression. Obsolete.
a. A temporary stay at a place.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [noun]
sojourningc1290
bigginga1325
sojourna1325
sojour1338
abodea1400
tarrying1445
tarryc1480
stay1538
reside1628
peregrination1630
sojournment1676
tabernaclinga1695
séjoura1753
α.
β. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 2770 Anon after þe tende day Of her soiourn..Gij is to þe douke y-go.a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xii In longe soiourne þei leseth her clees and hir feet.1459 Rolls of Parl. V. 363/1 The seid Prince shuld be in sojorne with the Kyng.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 385 That he to carleill than vald ga, And a quhill thar-in soiorn [1489 Adv. soiourn] ma.1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear i. 44 The two great Princes France and Burgundy,..Long in our Court haue made their amorous soiourne . View more context for this quotation1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 235 Scarce view'd the Gallilean Towns, And once a year Jerusalem, few days Short sojourn . View more context for this quotation1815 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 228 Meekly mourn When I depart, for brief is my sojourn.1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. lii. 276 Here..he made a sojourn of sixty days.1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 241 The Normans were tired of Lewis' prolonged sojourn.figurative.1804 H. K. White Let. 20 Oct. in Remains (1807) I. 136 Your friend, and fellow-traveller in the tearful sojourn of life.γ. c1480 (a1400) St. Katherine 4 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 442 He..to þe cite was cumyne,..& suiorne mad.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xx. 356 A weill gret sudiorne [1489 Adv. soiourne] thair he mad.1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 359 In tyll ane volt, abone that place of paine, Vnto the quhilk, but sudgeorne, we ascendit.a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3308 He maden siðen fro elim Mani suriuren in ðe desert sin.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2696 Ðog was him ðat surgerun ful loð.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > discursiveness or digression > a digression
sojournc1330
digressionc1374
adigression1483
start1534
interposition1553
vagary1572
excursion1574
excourse1579
parecbasis1584
parenthesis1594
transversal1612
evagation1618
passage1625
far-about1639
excurrency1650
deviation1665
parathesis1668
alieniloquy1727
side-slip1843
excursus1845
the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > a delay
spacea1413
sojourn?1507
moraa1633
moratorium1932
hang-fire1936
hold1961
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 6977 (Kölbing) Lete we now be þis soiourne & speke we of Oriens wroþ.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 45 Wes neuer sugeorne wer set na on that snaill tyrit.
2. A place of temporary stay. Also figurative.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary
harbourc1300
sojourna1375
restinga1382
resting placea1382
sojourninga1400
diversoryc1410
deversaryc1485
inn1529
roost1607
peregrination1610
roosting place1643
harbourage1651
séjour1769
pied-à-terre1823
hoochie1952
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3155 He..wasteþ al my londes, saue onliche in þis cite where soiourne wot i neuer.
a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS xxviii. 23 Heil soiourne þat Godus sone to sent.
1423 Kingis Quair cxiii There as hir duelling is and hir soiurne.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 15 Thee I re-visit now.., Escap't the Stygian Pool, though long detain'd In that obscure sojourn . View more context for this quotation
1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xxviii. 15 Let those deplore their doom, Whose hope still grovels in this dark sojourn.
1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xxii. 229 This gloomy bourne, The dread sojourn Of Guilt and twin-born Punishment and Woe.
1858 G. Rawlinson tr. Herodotus Hist. II. ii. cxxxiii. 210 Visiting all the places that he had heard were agreeable sojourns.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
sojournv.
/ˈsɒdʒən/, /ˈsʌdʒən/, /ˈsəʊdʒən/, /ˈsɒdʒəːn/, /ˈsʌdʒəːn/, /ˈsəʊdʒəːn/, U.S. /ˈsoʊˌdʒərn/ 1. † c. To be a lodger in another's house. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To make a temporary stay in a place; to remain or reside for a time.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)]
liec1000
harbourc1200
sojournc1290
layc1300
sojourc1330
to make, take (up) one's lodging1362
pilgrimagea1382
bield?a1400
lodgec1400
tarryc1400
to make (one's) residence1433
harbingec1475
harbry1513
stay1554
roost?1555
embower1591
quarter1591
leaguer1596
allodge1601
tenta1616
visit1626
billet1628
to lie abroad1650
tabernacle1653
sojourney1657
canton1697
stop1797
to shake down1858
to hole up1875
perendinate1886
shack1935
cotch1950
α.
β. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 114 Þe king wende in-to Normandie for-to soiorni þere.c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1374 For als gestes we here soiourne Awhile, til we sal hethen tourne.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3771 Sco send him son in-til aran,..Þar-to suiorn for hir sake.c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 156 Whan watry Phebus had his purpoos take For a sesoun to sojourne in Aquarye.1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur iv. xix. 143 They soiourned there a vij nyghte.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. ix. f. 84 Valladoleto (where we nowe suiorne).1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas 91 Where when she had some yeeres ysojorned,..A deepe Desire hir loving hart enflamde.1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 55 There we dyd al soiourne two dayes.1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 201 All the Papists which inhabited, or sojourned within the said limits.1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. vii. 122 He desir'd leave to sojourn a month.1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 239 The night, they said, is near, We must not now be parted, sojourn here.1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. ii. 23 Several months ago, I was sojourning at Neapolis.1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. iii. 77 He was sojourning at an hotel in Bond Street.reflexive.1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 3 The Englis kynges turned, þei mot do nomore, Bot soiorned þam a while in rest at Bangore.γ. c1325 Orfeo 47 Orpheo sugerneth in Crassens, That is a cyte of noble defens.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxx. 136 Þare he suggeournes when him list.c1440 Generydes 572 Lenger ther he thought not to sogeourne.1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory ii. xx. sig. e3v I was in dyuers cyties..longe tyme abydyng and suggernyng.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xiv. 7 A straunger, that sogeourneth in Israel.δ. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur v. xii. 182 He..sudgerned there a tyme.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 47 Thai sudiornyt [1489 Adv. soiournyt] thair dayis thre In gret myrth and in rialte.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. xi. 80 Indigites, quhilk is als mekill to say As God induellar at thar sudiornis ay.c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 147 To þe grete Abbeie to pountenie forto soriourni þere, he sende þis holi Man.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cciiii. f. cxxv Whanne kynge Edmunde hadde a season Sourgoyned [sic] at London, he than made toward the Danys.
b. transferred or figurative of things.
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c1366 G. Chaucer A.B.C. 160 Vn-to þat court þou me aiourne,..Þer as þat merci euere shal soiourne.
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 14v Thus diuers thoughts did soiourne in his brest.
1593 M. Drayton Idea vi. sig. D2 Mirth is farre away, Mirth may not soiourne with black malcontent.
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 206 Iron in its metallic state, sojourning with water always extricates inflammable air.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] > at the house of another, an inn, etc.
gesten?c1225
innc1390
host?c1450
bait1477
to be (or lie) at hosta1500
hostela1500
sojourn1573
to take up1607
guest?1615
to set upa1689
to keep up1704
to put up1706
lodge1749
room1809
hotel1889
dig1914
motel1961
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 8 Once charged with children, or likely to bee, geeue ouer to sudgerne, that thinkest to thee.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > delay [verb (intransitive)]
geleOE
studegieOE
abideOE
to do in or a (= on) fristc1175
dwellc1175
demurc1230
targec1250
dretcha1325
tarrya1375
sojourn1377
defer1382
letc1385
hinderc1386
blina1400
delay?a1400
honea1400
litea1400
overbidea1400
prolongc1425
supersede1433
hoverc1440
tarrowc1480
sunyie1488
stay?a1500
sleep1519
slack1530
protract1540
linger1548
procrastinate1548
slackc1560
slug1565
jauk1568
temporize1579
detract1584
longering1587
sit1591
prorogue1593
to time it out1613
to lie out1640
crastinate1656
taigle17..
to hang fire1782
to hold off1790
to hang it on1819
prevaricate1854
to lie over1856
to tread water1942
to drag one's feet1946
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 83 Whan I seyȝ þis, I soiourned nouȝte but shope me to renne.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 89 I wil no longer make digressioun, Nor in fables no more as now soiourne.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 48 Hit behoueth no lenger to soiourne, for ye muste go or sende vnto him with alle diligence.
1594 2nd Rep. Dr. Faustus xxii. sig. I2v Because the matter was as strange as trew, I have soiourned a little too long in it.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > provide with temporary accommodation
innOE
harbourc1150
gestena1300
guestc1330
hostelc1330
receivec1384
sojourn1390
harbry14..
shroudc1450
bestow1577
accommodate1592
board1600
quarter1603
stow1607
to put up1635
billet1637
lodge1741
room1840
to fix (a person) up1889
summer-board1889
shack1927
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 41 Whan thei weren thus sojorned,..Nero..The men let come in his presence.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 94 And ek it [i.e. rain] may be so sojorned In sondri places up alofte, That into hail it torneth ofte.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 153 For-thi salle thow lenge here,..This seuenyghte in solace, to suggourne ȝour horses.
1424 Sc. Acts, Jas. I (1814) II. 4/1 Þe kyng forbiddis þat ony cumpanyis..thig or soiorne hors..on kirkmen.
1631 Archdeaconry of Essex Minute-bk. f. 199 b Enterteyninge and soiourninge in his howse..a fellowe verie negligent in cominge to divine service.
1690 A. Wood Life 30 Apr. [They] are sojourned there by one Thomson for 10s. a week each.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > go on a journey
ferec950
foundOE
sitheOE
to come upOE
comeOE
undernimc1275
to take or make (a, the, or one's) voyage1297
travelc1300
journeyc1330
to take one's waya1375
reisea1387
to fare a waya1400
voyage1477
wayfare1534
peregrinate1593
sojourn1608
to fare a voyage1609
to journey itc1680
to take one's foot in one's hand1755
stroke1823
trek1850
peruse1895
1608 J. Harington Let. 14 June in Nugæ Antiquæ (1775) II. 108 I did once relate to your Highnesse after what sorte his tacklinge was wherewithe he did sojourn from my house at the Bathe to Greenwiche Palace.
Derivatives
ˈsojourning adj.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [adjective]
sojournant1439
sojourning1645
transient1713
inquiline1716
short-stay1946
1645 J. Bond Occasus Occidentalis 19 Sarah..the Patriarchesse, who willingly followed her sojourning husband up and downe in strange Countries.
a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. Peter in Wks. (1868) 50 It continues all the time of this sojourning life.
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