lodgement

lodgement

English

Etymology

From Middle French logement.

Noun

lodgement (countable and uncountable, plural lodgements)

1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of lodgment
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan in Selected Poems of Lord Byron, Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 2006, Canto I, stanza 215, p. 111,

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

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 11,

     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.