[f. BABBLE v. + -MENT. Cf. mod.F. babillement (not in Cotgr.).]

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  1.  Incoherent, imperfect or idle talk; thoughtless or unseasonable chatter, babble.

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1644.  Milton, Educ., Wks. 1738, I. 136. Deluded all this while with ragged Notions and Babblements.

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1834.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. III. vii. 174. A spoken Word meaning a Thing, and not a Babblement meaning No-thing.

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1860.  Tyndall, Glac., I. § 23. 167. The babblement of streams.

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  2.  Open-mouthed communication of news, secrets, etc.

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1850.  Blackie, Æschylus, I. 124. Lest some one hear, and, with swift babblement, Inform their ears who rule.

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