Forms: 5 sogorner, 5–6 soiorner, 6–7 soiourner, 6– sojourner, 7 sojourno(u)r. [f. SOJOURN v. + -ER1.]
1. One who sojourns; a temporary resident.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 689. Hic perhendinator, a sogorner.
1483. Cath. Angl., 348/2. A soiorner, perhendinator.
1535. Coverdale, Lev. xxv. 40. As an hyred seruaunte and as a soiourner shal he be with the.
1539. Bible (Great), 1 Chron. xxix. 15. We be but straungers before the, and sogeourners, as were all oure fathers.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. To King § 1. Queene Elizabeth was a soiourner in the world in respect of her vnmarried life.
1662. Act 14 Chas. II., c. xii. § 1. A native Householder, Sojourner, Apprentice, or Servant.
1756–7. trans. Keysler’s Trav. (1760), III. 113. Whoe’er thou art, a native, foreigner, or sojourner.
1836. Lane, Mod. Egypt., I. vi. 193. I replied that, being merely a sojourner in Egypt, I did not like … to take a wife.
1870. R. Anderson, Missions Amer. Board, III. 422. They were residents and not sojourners.
transf. 1803. Med. Jrnl., IX. 157. The Scarlet Fever and Sore Throat, which has for some time been an unwelcome sojourner in our neighbourhood.
2. A guest or lodger; a visitor.
1608. Shaks., Per., IV. ii. 149, G 1 b. Report what a soiourner we haue.
1623. Middleton, Women Beware Women, II. ii. 176. We’ve no strangers, woman, None but my sojourners and I.
1660. Blount, Boscobel, I. 25. Mr. John Huddleston (a sojourner at Mr. Thomas Whitgreaves).
† b. A boarder living in a house, school, or college, for the purpose of receiving instruction.
a. 1629. Hinde, J. Bruen, xxxvi. (1641), 114. [He] was very desirous to place them both as sojourners for a season in this gentlemans house.
c. 1672. Wood, Life (O. H. S.), I. 108. Having … obtained a comfortable estate by the great pains he took in pedagogie, and by the many sojournours that he alwaies kept in his house. Ibid. (1691), Ath. Oxon., I. 13. He [Grocyn] became a Sojournor in Exeter Coll.
1785. Gentl. Mag., LV. I. 13/1. From thence to Oxford, where he [F. Nicholls] was admitted a commoner (or sojourner) of Exeter College … on March 4, 1714.
