Citations:janglement

English citations of janglement

• 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VI, Two Centuries

  And coldly see the all-conquering valiant Sons of Toil sit enchanted, by the million, in their Poor-Law Bastille, as if this were Nature’s Law; — mumbling to ourselves some vague janglement of Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, Cash-payment the one nexus of man to man: Free-trade, Competition, and Devil take the hindmost, our latest Gospel yet preached!

• 1865, Fraser's Magazine, page 790:

  ... janglement and babblement. Our first right is to be ruled. Our first necessity is the hero who will take command of us, and lead us gently, if it may be, but lead us at all events, in the direction of truth and right, and away […]

• 1894, Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, page 417:

  The rest is all but janglement of art, — Less apt, as hearers I have heard complain, To please an ear, than to disturb a brain.

• 2007 February 6, Susan Wittig Albert, The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood, Penguin, →ISBN, page 144:

  ... janglement o'er that business, there was, some sayin' one thing, some another. But the chap didn't profit, after all. Fell 'neath a lorry and was cut to shreds by t' wheels.

• 1865, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, page 792:

  ... janglements, and doleful creatures having the honour to be, are collectively a far better king than any Cromwell or Frederick could possibly be. Will any one compare King Parliament to King Louis is Napoleon? We fancy that the […]

• 1890, All the Year Round, page 344:

  ... janglements and difficulties, not by any means detracting from its general approve-ableness as a mode of life for a pair of mutually suitable persons, but yet some-thing sufficiently tangible and real to vary what might otherwise be […]

• 2014 March 17, Ken Gale, Jane Speedy, Jonathan Wyatt, Collaborative Writing as Inquiry, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 233:

  ... janglements and tanglements and have benefitted perhaps from lacking a surface unity—we are not all Christians, or feminists, or lesbians or therapists or educators or..., or..., but maybe over the course of time, we have all become […]

• 1904, Benjamin Hoare, Preferential Trade: A Study of Its Esoteric Meaning, page 232:

  ... it as a pseudo-science. The first was always girding at its "janglements," and Ruskin Mallock, Labour and the Popular Welfare. tells that "rogue manufacture by political economy has turned […]

• 1886, English Dialect Society, Publications, page 379:

  ... JANGLEMENT [ jang'ulmunt ] , sb . Altercation ; confusion of tongues ; talking one across another ; angry dispute . ( Very com . ) [ Vas tree meet'een ! ees ! un u purtee jangʻulmunt twau'z dhur ; aay zeed dhur wúd -n bee noa soa urt u […]

• 1880, William Dickinson, A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland, page 50:

  ... on the 5th August . Janglement , G. angry disputa- tions . Jannock , c . , Jannick , N. right , fit , true . Jant , c . , Awwtin ' , s.w. a pleasure jaunt . Jarble , c . to bespatter . Jayls , c 50 CUMBERLAND GLOSSARY .