Definition of "sojourn"

Better the dark, silent, and fated waves of ocean, than the troubled waves of life. There are some whose sojourn on this earth is brief as it is bitter.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XLIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 367

But if, as we have seen, Wu's ambivalent attitude toward the conventional route to success originated in his early appreciation of the idealistic virtues of his father, then it is possible that parts of the work could have been written much earlier, perhaps even during his sojourn with his father in Chiang-su.

1978, Timothy C. Wong, edited by William Schultz, Wu Ching-tzu‎, Twayne Publishers, page 30

The use of vasoconstrictors to increase the sojourn of local anesthetics at the site of infiltration continues […]

2006, Joseph Price Remington, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science And Practice Of Pharmacy, page 1168

Though long detain'd / In that obscure sojourn

1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 12:30

The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, […] and here sojourned three days.

a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630