different between peregrinate vs sojourn

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?.??.????ne?t/

Etymology 1

From Latin peregrinari (“to live or travel abroad”). See also peregrine and pilgrim.

Verb

peregrinate (third-person singular simple present peregrinates, present participle peregrinating, simple past and past participle peregrinated)

1. (intransitive) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
   • 1935, G. de Purucker, The Esoteric Tradition, Part Two [1]

     He came first to recognise, then finally to know and to feel, that just as the atoms of his own physical body peregrinate by efflux and influx in and out of his body, so does he as a human ‘life-atom’ or human Monad peregrinate by unceasing influx and efflux in and out of the regular series of his earth-lives which succeed one another uninterruptedly during his sojourn in a Planetary Round on this globe Earth of the planetary chain, and much, very much, more.

   • 2000, Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom [2]

     As their brood grew, Annie and Thomas Barnacle peregrinated through a tight circle of tenements and small houses at shabby addresses in the heart of Galway: Abbeygate Street, Raleigh Row, Newtownsmyth.

2. (transitive) To travel through a specific place.
   • 1876, Edward S. Wheeler, Scheyichbi and the Strand [3]

     History records no popular tumult, except of tongues, about the matter, but Jesse Hand never fully regained the regard of some people, and jealousy and distrust, like a curse, followed his new-fangled equipage; and though he and his generation are long since dead, yet the writer hath knowledge of traditions that, still drawn by attenuated and discouraged equines, a very Wandering Jew of vehicles, Jesse Hand’s carriage still peregrinates, at a toilsome pace, the interminable, sandy, woodland roads of Jersey.

   • 1913, Marguerite Pollard, “The Message of Edward Carpenter,” in Theosophist Magazine [4]

     It is no longer hindered by any pride of race and can truthfully declare its readiness to “peregrinate every condition of man—with equal joy the lowest.”

   • 2005, Jan Morris, The World: Travels 1950–2000 [5]

     Anyway, as fledgling and as veteran, as man and as woman, as journalist and as aspirant littérateur, throught my half-century I peregrinated the world and wrote about it.

Derived terms

• peregrination
• peregrine

Related terms

• pilgrim

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin peregrinatus (“having travelled abroad”), past participle of peregrinari.

Adjective

peregrinate (comparative more peregrinate, superlative most peregrinate)

1. (rare) Peregrine; having travelled; exotic, foreign.
   • 1992, Julia Bolton Holloway, The Pilgrim and the Book [6]

     Other apprentices on this pilgrimage have been the worldly Squire to the peregrinate Knight to whom are juxtaposed the peregrinate Second Nun to the worldly Prioress.

Translations

Anagrams

• reparteeing, repartéeing, rerepeating

Italian

Verb

peregrinate

1. second-person plural present indicative of peregrinare
2. second-person plural imperative of peregrinare
3. feminine plural of peregrinato

Latin

Participle

peregr?n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of peregr?n?tus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sojor, sojorner (modern séjour, séjourner), from (assumed) Vulgar Latin *subdiurn?re, from Latin sub- (“under, a little over”) + Late Latin diurnus (“lasting for a day”), from Latin dies (“day”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?d???n/, /?s?d??n/, /?s??d???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?so?d??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Noun

sojourn (plural sojourns)

1. A short stay somewhere.
   • 2006, Joseph Price Remington, Paul Beringer, Remington: The Science And Practice Of Pharmacy (page 1168)

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

2. A temporary residence.

Synonyms

• abode

Translations

Verb

sojourn (third-person singular simple present sojourns, present participle sojourning, simple past and past participle sojourned)

1. (intransitive) To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.

   • Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.

   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI

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

Synonyms

• stay over, stop; See also Thesaurus:sojourn

Translations

Related terms

• sojourner
• sojourney

References

Anagrams

• journos