Usually means: Staying overnight, especially when traveling.
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  1. pernoctation: Merriam-Webster
  2. pernoctation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pernoctation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pernoctation: Wordnik
  5. pernoctation: Wiktionary
  6. Pernoctation: Dictionary.com
  7. Pernoctation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. pernoctation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. pernoctation: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  10. Pernoctation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. pernoctation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. pernoctation: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Pernoctation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (pernoctation)

noun:  (uncountable) The action of abiding through the night at a location; (countable) an instance of this; an overnight stay.
noun:  (uncountable) The action of walking about at night, especially as a vigil or watch; (countable) an instance of this.
noun:  (countable, religion, chiefly Christianity, obsolete) A religious watch kept during normal sleeping hours, during which prayers or other ceremonies are performed; a vigil.

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