The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sojourning \So"journ*ing\, n. The act or state of one who sojourns.
Sojourn \So"journ\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sojourned; p. pr. & vb. n. Sojourning.] [OE. sojornen, sojournen, OF. sojorner, sejorner, F. s['e]journer, fr. L. sub under, about + diurnus belonging to the day. See Journal, Diurnal.] 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.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who sojourns; a short stay or residence. vb. (present participle of sojourn English)
Usage examples of "sojourning".
Sherry when sojourning there could not but appeal to a young lady who had been irked all her own short life by shibboleths and restrictions.
He did indeed wonder that Miss Milborne could so calmly talk of the several acquaintances she had at present sojourning in Bath, of taking out subscriptions to the Balls at the Assembly Rooms, of visiting the best circulating libraries, and of a dozen other such irrelevant trifles.
Henry was sojourning in Woodstock when a flood of disquieting news reached him from overseas to add to his anxiety over the errantry of the young king.
I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea, and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
And she seemed to companion him in the visits and sojournings of reverie, when he would imagine himself repairing to the little hut or roaming beneath the delicate foliage.
This second spell of fainting filled my sleeping mind anew with shivering realization of the country and its archaic secrets, and through some damnable chance my dreams turned to the ancient notions of the dead and their sojournings in soul and body beyond those mysterious tombs which were more houses than graves.