Abode vs Lodgement - What's the difference?
abode | lodgement | Related terms |
(obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
(obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
* 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
* (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
(formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
* (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
(abide)
(obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
* High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -
Abode is a related term of lodgement.
As nouns the difference between abode and lodgement
is that abode is (obsolete) act of waiting; delay or abode can be (obsolete) an omen; a foretelling while lodgement is (british).As a verb abode
is (abide) or abode can be (obsolete) to bode; to foreshow; to presage .abode
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* (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .Noun
(en noun)- Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
- He waxeth at your abode here.
- of no fixed abode .
- Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .
