Babeldom

babeldom English Alternative forms en babeldom babbledom Babbledom Etymology From a conflation of en babble dom and en Babel dom. Noun ~ A confused mix of voices, languages, or words and ideas. en The Life, Work, and Opinions of Heinrich Heine William Stigand 1880 107 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." en Library of Famous Fiction The Forlorn Hope 1881 102 E.H. Yates Notwithstanding all the shams which, to use Mr. Carlyle's phrases, have been exploded, all the Babeldoms which have been talked out, all the mockeries, delusions, and snares which have been exposed, it yet remains that marriage is the be-all and end-all of the British maiden's existence. en The Development of Taste, and Other Studies in Aesthetics W. Proudfoot Begg 1887 215 But it is not all of the curse of Babeldom in the passage — unless we are to suppose that, in the two sentences following that on which I have been commenting, we have only a statement of the truism that the appearance of the country and our customs have improved with civilization, -- which would be irrelevant to the though preceding. en Pharmacy in History - Volume 35 1993 9 If phenolphthalein names were fanciful in 1910, the date of this protest, they were utter folly by the 1920s, a "Babeldom" in the opinion of purgative expert Bernard Fantus. en Through my Asian eyes S. Pathiravitana 2003 41 9552056977 While we welcome the growth of a meaningful dialect of English, we fear an unregulated growth of Ceylonisms may create a Babeldom in the linguistic international arena. A state of noisy confusion and chaotic activity en Music Journal - Volume 33 1975 53 HPSCHD is, literally, describable — six harpsichords, movie and still projections of lunar and terrestrial landscapes (courtesy of NASA), a vertiginous polyglot of quaquaversal dispersion, a Babeldom of visual and aural stimuli — but, like nearly all of Cage's work, its impact lies totally in the experiential effect of being there. en The uncensored Boris Godunov Chester S. L. Dunning; Caryl Emerson; Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 2006 494 0299207609 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. en Blood And Steel - The Rise Of The House Of Krupp Bernhard Menne 2013 1473386845 As Skoda was at the same time supplying both Bulgaria and her opponents, while Schneider and Vickers-Zaharoff were simultaneously engaged in a bitter struggle for the entire Balkan region, the confusion amongst the various interests grew to Babeldom. en Deader Homes and Gardens Joan Hess 2014 1447279387 Babeldom drowned out any elaboration of the invitation, which was for the best. A multiplicity of mutually unintelligible languages. en Egypt as it is James Carlile McCoan 1877 221 In connection with both are night-schools for adults, which are also largely attended by Arabs, Copts, Jews, Levantines, and Europeans of almost every nationality: the waifs-and-strays of Babeldom who have no time for school-work by day, but who take industriously to it six evenings a week under the attractions here offered. en The Rotarian Language of Friendship 1930 February 36 2 19 Everett W. Hills Rotary has proved that the language of friendship is readily understood regardless of the Babeldom of tongues. en The Work of the Holy Spirit Abraham Kuyper 2007 138 1602068380 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.