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ˈbrabblement arch.
Also brable-.
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
Cavilling, quibbling (obs.); noisy quarrelling, contentious uproar (now chiefly dial.).
1556Abp. Parker Psalter cvi. 16 They provokt with wrath..Aaron..wyth foolish brablementes. a1563Bale Sel. Wks. (1849) 176 Are not Christ and his disciples teachers sufficient enough..but we must have unsavoury brabblements? 1593Nashe Christ's T. 68 b, Contention..is euer in Armes, neuer out of brabblements. 1824Craven Dial. 23 Hees ollas agait o' some brabblement. 1876Daily News 28 Sept. 5/3 The Commune was a time of extraordinary ‘brabblement’—to use a word of Carlyle's. |