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Definition of Drivelling
1. drivel [v] - See also: drivel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drivelling
Literary usage of Drivelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1842)
"Decrepitude is not invariably attended with drivelling—as we hare already shown,
the opposite is sometimes its concomitant. When, however, it does prevail, ..."
2. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"... His withered fist still knocking at death's door, Fumbling and drivelling as
he draws his breath, 335 For brief, the shape and messenger of Death. ..."
3. Sermons and Discourses by Thomas Chalmers (1846)
"There j is here no compromise of sound principle j on the part of the church—for
it is not in drivelling submission to the authority of | man, ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"... a cloth to prevent a child drivelling over its clothes. Baver, to slaver or
drivel. See Beaver. Fris. b'dbbe, the mouth. Perhaps the word has once been ..."
5. Twenty Years in Parliament by William Torrens McCullagh Torrens (1893)
"We only make fools of ourselves by babbling about territorial covetousness and
dishonesty, and the sooner the drivelling hypocrisy is given over the better. ..."
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