SOJOURNING

Verb

sojourning

present participle of sojourn

Noun

sojourning (plural sojournings)

The act of one who sojourns; a short stay or residence.

my sojournings all over Europe

Source: Wiktionary


So"journ*ing, n.

Definition: The act or state of one who sojourns.

SOJOURN

So"journ, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sojourned; p. pr. & vb. n. Sojourning.] Etym: [OE. sojornen, sojournen, OF. sojorner, sejorner, F. séjourner, fr. L. sub under, about + diurnus belonging to the day. See Journal, Diurnal.]

Definition: 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. Gen. xii. 30. Home he goeth, he might not longer sojourn. Chaucer. The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days. Hayward.

So"journ, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. sujurn, sujur, sejor, F. séjour. See Sojourn, v. i.]

Definition: A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land. Though long detained In that obscure sojourn. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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OBLIQUE

(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”


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