sojourn
noun
a temporary stay.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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Alfred is reported to be still at Park House, where he has been sojourning p. 177for two months, I think; but he never writes me a word.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright