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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I would listen to a stormy sea of babblement, and try to extract some constructive intimations.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
That aim, albeit they were of minds diverse, Conjoined them, not to strive without surcease; For them could be no babblement of peace While lay their country under Slavery's curse.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
The speech of men and American hero-worshipers is grown such a babblement: in very truth, silence is the thing that chiefly has meaning,—there or here….
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Thomas Carlyle
They didn't mak no babblement, but just set theirsens down on their huggans, pricked up their lugs, cocked their tails ower their rigs, and kept their een fixed on Melsh Dick.
From More Tales of the Ridings by Frederic William Moorman
Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness, compact comprehensiveness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cognancy; eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity and jejune babblement.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
