noun
definition
A short stay somewhere.
definition
A temporary residence.
verb
definition
To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
Examples of sojourn in a Sentence
In most countries a lengthened sojourn is a condition precedent to naturalization.
His sojourn there was fruitful.
After another long sojourn in Crete he again received the command against Nabis.
But the period of the Israelites' sojourn in Egypt, according to Ex.
This points to a reconciliation during Paul's last sojourn in Jerusalem or Caesarea.
After a brief sojourn in Charlestown, Winthrop and many of his immediate associates settled in Boston in the autumn of 1630.
During the early days of his sojourn at court an incident happened which contributed in no small measure to the realization of his ambition.
In the very first days of his sojourn he had written a pamphlet with the imposing title of Treatise on Metaphysics.
The supporters assigned to him by the Lord Lyon are presumably an illusion to his sojourn in exotic lands.
His first sojourn was in Vienna, where the friendship of Gentz and the protection of Metternich opened to him the Venetian archives, of which many were preserved in that city - a virgin field, the value of which he first discovered, and which is still unexhausted.
The latter depend, it is true, on bodily organs during our earthly sojourn, but the dependence is not necessary.
It does not follow that faith in the Bible record is shaken, although in some quarters there has been a pronounced tendency to regard the history of the Egyptian sojourn as mythical; yet it cannot be denied that Egyptian records, corroborating at least some phases of the Bible story, would have been a most welcome addition to our knowledge.
During this sojourn of five years in England he had made many valuable friends outside of court and political circles, among whom Hume, Robertson and Adam Smith were conspicuous.
There are two pretty public parks, one in the Hufen, with a zoological garden attached, another the Luisenwahl which commemorates the sojourn of Queen Louisa of Prussia in the town in the disastrous year 1806.
Here too arose the obscure triangular quarrel between Diderot, Rousseau and Frederick Melchior Grimm, which ended Rousseau's sojourn at the Hermitage.
In 1758, under the duke of Marlborough, he shared in the ineffective raid on Cancale Bay, and the troops, after a short sojourn in the Isle of Wight, were sent to join the allied army of Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick in Germany.
Gottfried is a far greater master of style than Wolfram von Eschenbach, and his treatment of some of the episodes, notably the sojourn in the woods, is most exquisite.
How long before this the Nativity should be placed the Gospel does not enable us to say precisely, but as Herod's decree of extermination included all infants up to two years of age, and as a sojourn of the Holy Family in Egypt of unknown length intervened between the massacre and Herod's death, it is clear that it is at least possible, so far as the evidence of this Gospel goes, that the birth of Christ preceded Herod's death by as much as two or three years.
Towards the end of his sojourn in Rome he fell violently in love with a Roman lady called Faustine, who appears in his poetry as Columba and Columbelle.
Many interesting particulars have been given regarding the journey of these learned men to Rome and their sojourn there.
His health, however, was unequal to the strain, and after a short sojourn in Algiers he settled in London and adopted the profession of literature.
The years from 1848 to 1858 were alluded to subsequently as "the veiled period " of her life, and she spoke vaguely of a seven years' sojourn in " Little and Great Tibet," or preferably of a " Himalayan retreat."
Doubtless, however, he returned to Rome after a long sojourn in Alexandria, a fact which explains the defectiveness of his information about the countries to the east of his native land, and renders it possible for him to have made use of the " chorography " of Agrippa, a map of the Roman Empire and adjacent countries set up by order of Augustus in the Porticus Vipsaniae.
In Belgium, the United Kingdom, North America and Russia the period of such sojourn is fixed at five years, in France, Greece and Sweden at three, in the Argentine Republic two, while in Portugal a residence of one year is sufficient.
In the winter the cattle consume the hay mown on these Voralpen (which, to a certain extent, are grazed in late spring and early autumn, that is, before and after the summer sojourn on the alps), either living in the huts on the Voralpen while they consume it, or in the stable attached to the dwelling-houses in the village; in the barn is stored the hay mown on the homestead and on the meadows near the village, which may belong to the owner of the cattle.
During this sojourn in the wilderness Kruger stated that he had been especially favoured by God, who had communed with and inspired him.
The parallel account in the book of Joshua of the entrance of the " children of Israel " is, in its present form, the sequel to the journey of the people along the east of Edam and Moab after the escape from Egypt, and after a sojourn at Kadesh (Exodus-Deuteronomy).
It is already suggested that allusions to a sojourn in Egypt may refer, not to the remote times of Jacob and Moses but to the circumstances of the 7th century; see C. Steuernagel, op. cit.
The sense of the gap between theory and fact gives to the religious element of Stoicism a new force; the soul, conscious of its weakness, leans on the thought of God, and in the philosopher's attitude towards external events, pious resignation preponderates over self-poised indifference; the old self-reliance of the reason, looking down on man's natural life as a mere field for its exercise, makes room for a positive aversion to the flesh as an alien element imprisoning the spirit; the body has come to be a " corpse which the soul sustains," 1 and life a " sojourn in a strange land "; 2 in short, the ethical idealism of Zeno has begun to borrow from the metaphysical idealism of Plato.
He returned a few times for a brief sojourn to attend the meetings of the Greek Chamber; but there could be no rest for him until the Treaties of Neuilly and of Sevres were finally signed.
And this why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering, Tho the sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing.
The time for both is our brief sojourn on this earth, our earthly life.
You know they are delicious and nutritious and even worth a sojourn into the underworld, but do you know how to eat a pomegranate?
The area is a popular destination during the warmer summer months, but can make a nice sojourn even in early spring and late fall.
During Victor's sojourn from Genoa City, he spends time in Kansas where he meets and falls in love with a blind woman named Hope.
Pullman shows his extraordinary imagination in The Amber Spyglass, with physicist Mary Malone's sojourn among the Mulefa.
Rabbu1a perhaps owed his elevation to the see of Edessa (411-435), in the year which produced the oldest dated Syriac MS., to his asceticism, and it was to his time that the sojourn there of the " Man of God " (Alexis) was assigned; but he won from the Nestorians the title of the Tyrant of Edessa.
After a brief sojourn for lunch the group re-formed at the St Bride Printing Library.
Quot murderers ' row sojourn of conservative revelry on the national they don't reflect.
In this sense, during His earthly sojourn, the " external glory " was utterly laid aside.
I settled into my slow pace as I was not back to my rhythm after my lengthy sojourn on the sub-continent.
Monday 19th March Paphos headland We started early at seven o'clock for a short sojourn to the beach area.
During their long sojourn in London, Engels assisted them to acquire the Marxian method.
But to end my little sojourn through the Ladies ' Section may I end on a positive note.
His new cookbook, Coming Home is so called because he took a sojourn in France to enjoy the pleasure of French food.
I will now return to my comfy little world - but I enjoyed this sojourn, Angela... .
What did the members of the British Antarctic Expedition read during their three years sojourn?
Once this is completed she plans her summer sojourn in Tilling, wrestling with the social whirl of he new habitat.
But the constant feuds which raged between the regent and her second son, Shams Addaula, compelled the scholar to quit the place, and of ter a brief sojourn at Kazwin, he passed southwards to Hamadan, where that prince had established himself.
To the period of this sojourn in Holland must probably be referred the surreptitious impression or publication of an imperfect edition of the Inquiry concerning Virtue, from a rough draught, sketched when he was only twenty years of age.