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from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to babbling.
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'Nothing,' he declares, 'in abstract science can be more certain than these propositions,' though they are denied by 'our professors of the arts babblative and scribblative '-- that is, by Benthamites and Whigs.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
qms commented on the word babblative
As talk for the troubled's a palliative
And Congress, a failing collaborative,
Inept to the hilt
Is Babel rebuilt,
It's frantic and futilely babblative.
August 12, 2017