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Meanings of lodgment in English

The state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily.

Usage of lodgment in English
1
Mr O'Callaghan said he had no information in connection with the lodgment.
The Irish Times
2
The ball of the villain has found a lodgment in my breast.
Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 1
3
The obstruction was removed after seven years' lodgment and the neuralgia disappeared.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
4
The great news had finally found a clear lodgment in David's brain.
The Rose in the Ring
5
What gave lodgment to this conviction he did not bother to analyze.
The Drums of Jeopardy
6
With the lodgment of this thought she stopped in wide-eyed terror.
The Beasts of Tarzan
7
Block mentions a similar case, in which the lodgment had lasted twenty-eight years.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
8
Two had found lodgment in the bear-skin on which I slept.
Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography
9
There were three opinions that had obtained a lodgment in the public mind.
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2
10
This was upon the same principle appropriated to the lodgment of single women.
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2
11
He tried to drive that thought from lodgment in his mind.
The Day of the Beast
12
Sapping-operations began that evening, and on the 18th a small lodgment was effected.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 / A Magaz...
13
But what happened as she returned to her lodgment in the Rüdenberg Street?
Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Rei...
14
Persian duplicity has made no lodgment within him, of that I am sure.
Zenobia; or, the Fall of Palmyra
15
We can make our lodgment secure, but we must go to work immediately.
The Second Deluge
16
He's the one who got me my lodgment on New Gibbon.
A Son of the Sun
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