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Definition of Jumbling
1. jumble [v] - See also: jumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumbling
Literary usage of Jumbling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1821)
"... in the verse is a trochee; by which method the most discordant and ridiculous
jumbling is produced, ..."
2. The Evangelical Guardian and Review (1818)
"The endless concatenation of epithets, and frequent jumbling of metaphors, like
artificial colouring upon a TO TUS EDITORS. If the following translation of ..."
3. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K. G., and His Times by Alexander Charles Ewald (1882)
"I. bling, wandering, jumbling speech. Now, I must say—and 1 can assure the hon.
and learned gentleman that I paid the utmost attention to the remarks which ..."
4. A Hand-book of English Literature by Francis Henry Underwood (1879)
"... to place his brothers and sisters on their thrones; the cutting up of established
societies of men, and jumbling them discordantly together again at his ..."
5. The Equilibration of Human Aptitudes and Powers of Adaptation by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1895)
"THE LOWEST Classes of Most Importance—Gifts Mis-applied— jumbling in Consequence—A
Query —Lines that were Drawn of Old against Admitting Common People into ..."
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