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- noun Plural form of
sojourning .
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Examples
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The plural meghurim, "sojournings," is one of the plurals of extent common with nouns picturing various conditions (K.S. 261 a).
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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He was a man who had been much given to royal visitings and attendances, to parties in the Highlands, to — no doubt necessary — prolongations of the London season, to sojournings at certain German watering-places, convenient, probably, in order that he might study the ways and ceremonies of German
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And, indeed, it is in the references in his romance to names, persons, and places, that the most certain and valuable evidence is to be found of his intercourse, his patrons, his friendships, his sojournings, and his travels: his own work is the best and richest mine in which to search for the details of his life.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And, indeed, it is in the references in his romance to names, persons, and places, that the most certain and valuable evidence is to be found of his intercourse, his patrons, his friendships, his sojournings, and his travels: his own work is the best and richest mine in which to search for the details of his life.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Bat regarded his master as a man wholly devoted to horses, but often wondered why he was not more regular in his sojournings in Oxfordshire.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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And he knew this now, returned home from all his sojournings.
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Giovanni's sojournings in various localities, the reader will be able to trace approximately the sequence of the works which we now proceed to name as among his most important productions.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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And Jacob dwelt in the land of the sojournings of his father, in the land of Canaan.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Besides, these patriarchs were at a very special disadvantage for the present: Canaan was "the land where they sojourned," literally: "the land of their sojournings."
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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More and more Abraham sees, as Isaac also later did, that the southern extremity of the land is best suited to his sojournings.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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