Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of jumbling, or the state of being jumbled; confused mixture
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Low Confused mixture.
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- noun A
confused mixture .
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Examples
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Solitude has such a power of blending past, present, and future, far and near, all into one confused jumblement, in which I wander about like
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Had they but known it, it might all have been seen, holy of holies, head-wagging priest, idle yawning assistant, with legs stretched out, half asleep, mumblement, jumblement and all, from a little back window in a passage opening from that Calvary gallery upstairs.
The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848
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From thence at least did these profane eyes look down and see all the mumblement and jumblement, which after all was little enough; but saw especially the idle clerical apprentice who, had that screen been down, and had he been called on to do his altar work before the public eye, would not have been so nearly asleep, as may perhaps be said of other clerical performers nearer home.
The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848
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