jabberment
English
Noun
jabberment (uncountable)
- (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.
References
- “jabberment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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