[ad. F. séjournement (OF. sojorne-, sujurnement), after SOJOURN v.] The action of sojourning; a temporary stay.
a. 1700. Evelyn, 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.
1756. 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.
1819. [E. S. Barrett], Metropolis, II. 239. After a sojournment of two months, she continued her route towards Paris.
1853. J. H. Newman, Hist. Sk., Ser. II. I. i. (1873), 7. A constant motive for them to seek out … places of sojournment elsewhere.
transf. 1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, III. 178. Mercury introduced into the mass of blood makes a longer sojournment in the body, than is generally judged.
1794. R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., II. 169. The sea announces every where, its different sojournments.
