jabberment
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jabberment (uncountable)
- (dialect or archaic) jabber
- a. 1675, John Milton, Colasterion. A Reply to a Nameless Answer Against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 421:
- At laſt and in good hour, we are come to his farewel, which is to be a concluding taſte of his Jabberment in Law, the flaſhieſt and fuſtieſt that ever corrupted in ſuch an unſwill'd Hogſhead.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “jabberment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)