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Definition of Babblement
1. n. Babble.
Definition of Babblement
1. Noun. (obsolete) babble ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Babblement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Babblement
Literary usage of Babblement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: With Their Etymology, and by John Trotter Brockett (1829)
"... babblement, silly discourse. Probably from Fr. babiller. In the first edition
of this work I admitted the derivation given in the Craven Glossary, ..."
2. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1871)
"there, and keeps up a babblement that seems quite dispro- portioned even to the
multitude of tongues that make it. So many words are not spoken in a New ..."
3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"BAA-WAA-BODY, a silly or insignificant person. " Hada way ! he's oney a baa-waa-body."
BAB, Barbara. babblement, a confused noise of talk. ..."
4. Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1902)
"Noo, Parliament, as they ca' it, is joost everlasting babblement and lies."
We led him to discuss the labor question and the condition of the working ..."
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