nonce-wd. [? f. FUMBLE, parodying similitude.] ‘A weak comparison’ (Halliw.).

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1583.  Fulke, Defence, iii. 112. As for your fomblitudes of Manlius and Iudas, two proper names, compared with image, and idoll, king, and tyrant, which be common names, I will not vouchsafe to answer them.

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