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Babble (noun)

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Ba'bble. n.s. [babil, Fr.] Idle talk; senseless prattle.

This babble shall not henceforth trouble me;
Here is a coil with protestation! Shakesp. Two G. of Verona.

                            Come, no more,
This is mere moral babble. Milton.

With volleys of eternal babble,
And clamour more unanswerable. Hudibras.

The babble, impertinence, and folly, I have taken notice of in disputes. Glanville's Scepsis Scientifica.

Sources: Butler, Samuel (98) · Glanvill, Joseph (53) · Milton, John (449) · Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona (41)

Attributes: French (385) · Noun Substantive (1269)

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