babble
verb (used without object)
to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
babblement
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a word derived from
babble.
Example Sentences
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Just such babblement as that you can read in very learned books, and stuff like that has actually been taught in colleges, and nobody was sent to the lunatic asylum!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
This continued until I approached the end of the glacier, when suddenly the babblement of streams, and a world of sounds to which I had been before quite deaf burst in upon me.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
They saw him slowly shake his head, The thing denied that it was dead, While from the blacks arose a babblement of prayer.
From Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by DuBose Heyward
This letter is a strange mixture of silly babblement, mysticism, and fanaticism; but throughout it wants the true ring of an honest correspondence.
From The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot by W. D. (William Dool) Killen
Greyfriars alone was silent in that babblement, for it had lost tower and bell in an explosion of gunpowder.
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
