jugglement

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English

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Etymology

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From juggle +‎ -ment.

Noun

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jugglement (countable and uncountable, plural jugglements)

  1. (archaic) jugglery; trickery or deception
    • 1821, Thomas Cormouls, The First Stroke of the Axe at the Baleful Tree of False Knowledge, & Its Main Root Severed; Or, an Analysis by Experiments and Natural Facts, of True Gravity, and Its Real Phenomena & Cause Developed, Etc, page vi:
      For there has been no little collusion and jugglement upon these falsities []