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sojournment|ˈsʌ-, ˈsɒ-, ˈsəʊdʒənmənt|
[ad. F. séjournement (OF. sojorne-, sujurnement), after sojourn v.]
The action of sojourning; a temporary stay.
a1700Evelyn Diary 2 May 1644, Tours, where we were design'd for the rest of the time I had resolv'd to stay in France, the sojournment being so agreeable. 1756T. Amory Buncle (1770) I. 73 Was it possible for Abraham, during his temporary sojournments among them,..to persuade so many tribes to quit their dialect. 1819Metropolis II. 239 After a sojournment of two months, she continued her route towards Paris. 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. Ser. ii. i. i. (1873) 7 A constant motive for them to seek out..places of sojournment elsewhere.
transf.1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 178 Mercury..makes a longer sojournment in the body than is generally judged. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. II. 169 The sea announces every where, its different sojournments. |