sb. and a. Obs. Forms: 5 sojournaunt(e, -nante, soiur-, sojornaunt, 6 sudjournente. [a. OF. sojournant, etc., pres. pple. of sojourner SOJOURN v.]
A. sb. A sojourner; a visitor or guest.
c. 1400. Plowman’s Tale, in Pol. Poems (Rolls), I. 327. Alas! the devill hath cleane hem blent, Soche one is Sathanas sojournaunt.
1477. Rolls of Parlt., VI. 186/2. The abiders and sojournantes of the same [town].
1478. Paston Lett., III. 219. Your doughter of Sweynsthorpp and hyr sojornaunt E. Paston recomandyth hem to yow.
1536. in Lett. Suppress. Monasteries (Camden), 140. The gentlemens children and sudjournentes that ther doo lif.
B. adj. Sojourning; residing for a time.
1439. in Dugdale, Monasticon (1823), IV. 553/2. Admitte noone sojournauntes wymment with owte lycence of us.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. 63. The Chronycles all agre … that she was no nonne but a wenche soiornaunt in the nondrye.
