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A stay so temporary it brags about leaving before it even unpacks.
means To stay somewhere temporarily, or a temporary stay — a visit that knows it has an exit.
from From Old French 'sojorner,' to stay or tarry, which traces back to a Late Latin compound built from 'sub-' (under) and a form related to 'diurnum' (day) — the same 'day' root that gives us 'journal' and 'journey.' So buried in the word is the idea of spending a span of days somewhere, then moving on.
- root
- From Latin subdiurnare, to spend the day
- built-in exit
- Implies you will leave, unlike living
- legal weight
- Visa rules hinge on sojourn duration
- literary
- Bunyan and Hawthorne loved the word
- not a verb only
- Works as both stay and act of staying
for instance
marco polo silk road — traveled from venice to kublai khan's court for 24 years, 1271-1295
ernest hemingway paris 1920s — expatriate writer lived in paris during the lost generation era, 1921-1926