lodgement

noun

1. (British, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative spelling of lodgment.

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

   “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.”