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Etymology
Origin of jugglery
1250–1300; Middle English jogel ( e ) rie < Old French joglerie, equivalent to jogler juggler + -ie -y 3
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There is no limit to this sort of verbal jugglery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far from being mere slices of life, or glimpses of fantasy or of psychological freaks, they demonstrate once again that the short story is not only for light jugglery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Secretary of Commerce Hoover grew downright irritated last week at the jugglery of the German-French potash monopoly.
From Time Magazine Archive
No such jugglery as followed and set aside the elections of 1868 and 1876 can prevail in 1928.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next, a troop of jugglers with polished spheres of gold, which they hurl up high jn flashing flights, and catch, and hurl again, making' fountain-jets of bright jugglery.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Then he declaimed against magnetism—"a heap of juggleries, whose effects came only from the imagination."
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
We are too close to Infinite love and wisdom to play pranks before it, and provoke comparison between our paltry juggleries and its omnipotence and majesty.
From Confessions and Criticisms by Julian Hawthorne
For all these things—a senseless mass of juggleries to the uninformed eye—are really growths of the human spirit struggling to develop its life, and full of instruction for those who learn to understand them.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
The first twining of feeling and belief is here, the earliest of many of those juggleries of Nature which make a fool of reason.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
We do not know whether it was for similar juggleries, that, when at Wittenberg, the Elector John the Steadfast ordered him to be arrested, as Manlius relates.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various
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