lodgement

English

Noun

lodgement (countable and uncountable, plural lodgements)

1. British spelling of lodgment.
   • 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, stanza CCXV, page 110:

     And in thy stead I've got a deal of judgment, / Though heaven knows how it ever found a lodgement.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in Billy Budd‎^[1], London: Constable & Co.:

     Is Envy then such a monster? […] since its lodgement is in the heart not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it.

   • 1934, T. S. Eliot, Chorus VII from 'The Rock' in Collected Poems, 1909-1962, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963, p. 162,

     and man without GOD is a seed upon the wind: driven this way and that, and finding no place of lodgement and germination.