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Remain vs Sojourn - What's the difference?

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Remain is a related term of sojourn.


As nouns the difference between remain and sojourn

is that remain is state of remaining; stay while sojourn is a short stay somewhere.

As verbs the difference between remain and sojourn

is that remain is to stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised while sojourn is to reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.

remain

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • State of remaining; stay.
  • That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
  • (plural only) remains : That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
  • The posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
  • * Bible, (w) vi. 12
    • Gather up the fragments that remain .
  • * (John Locke)
    • Thatremains to be proved.
  • To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
  • * Bible, (Genesis) xxxviii. 11
    • Remain a widow at thy father's house.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
  • To await; to be left to.
  • (copulative) To continue in a state of being.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Derived terms

    * remain to be seen

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    sojourn

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • A temporary residence.
    • Though long detained / In that obscure sojourn . — Milton.

    Verb

  • To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.
  • * Bible, Genesis xii. 30
    • Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.
  • * Hayward
    • The soldiers first assembled at Newcastle, and there sojourned three days.

    Conjugation

    * The archaic third-person singular present active indicative form sojourneth is also attested.

    Related terms

    * sojourner

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