sojourn
Speech parts
1. sojourn - Noun
2. sojourn - Verb
Meaning
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.
A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
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Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.
First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.
... from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.)
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Grace, honour, praise, delight, Here sojourn day and night.
Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.