babeldom

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Alternative form of Babeldom.

   • Written by and for a myopic, microscopical insomniac, it's a babeldom that puts all noveldom in the shade, that puts culture, with a sardonic laugh, in a cul-de-sac.
   • To do this, it was necessary to exile myself from doctors and medical conventions; for I could not think for myself while listening to the babblings of babeldom.
2. 2

   A confused mix of voices, languages, or words and ideas.

   • Only a German hobbledehoy was coarse with me, and cursed at my aping foreign Babeldoms, and thundered out in his beery bass, " At a Tscherman mummery must the Tschennan Tscherman speak."
3. 3

   A state of noisy confusion and chaotic activity

   • For the less well educated audience, another interpretation "programmed" by Pushkin was possible - the perception of a clash of forces as a spectacle of Babeldom.
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   1. 4

      A multiplicity of mutually unintelligible languages.

      • Rotary has proved that the language of friendship is readily understood regardless of the Babeldom of tongues.
      • In the midst of the Babeldom of the nations, on the day of Pentecost, the one pure and mighty human language was revealed which one day all will speak, and all the brethren and sisters from all nations and tongues will understand.

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