Citations:inaniloquous

English citations of inaniloquous

• [1637, H[enry] C[ockeram], “Inaniloquous”, in The English Dictionarie: Or, An Interpreter of Hard English Words. [...], 5th rev. and enl. edition, London: Printed by I[ohn] H[aviland] for Edmund Weaver, and are to be sold [by J. Crooke and R. Sergier] at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard, →OCLC:

  Inaniloquous, A babbler.^[sic]]

• [1724, N[athan] Bailey, “INANILOQUENT, INANILOQUOUS”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Comprehending the Derivations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, either Ancient or Modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in Their Proper Characters. [...], 2nd edition, London: Printed for E. Bell [et al.], →OCLC:

  INANILOQUENT, INANILOQUOUS, [inaniloquus, L.] Vain Talking or Babbling.^[sic]]

• 1934, The Modern Monthly, volume 8, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Quarterly, →OCLC, page 308, column 2:

  The blank spaces of [Stéphane] Mallarmé, the silence of [Maurice] Maeterlinck, the inaniloquous repetitive babblings of Gertrude Stein are the abyss which threatens to engulf creative effort if it continues in this direction.