jabberment

English

Etymology

jabber + -ment

Noun

jabberment (uncountable)

  1. (dialect or obsolete) jabber
    • a. 1675, John Milton, Colasterion. A Reply to a Nameless Answer Against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, [], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 421:
      At laſt and in good hour, we are come to his farewel, which is to be a concluding taſte of his Jabberment in Law, the flaſhieſt and fuſtieſt that ever corrupted in ſuch an unſwill'd Hogſhead.

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