Meanings
noundragglement (countable and uncountable, plural dragglements)
plural dragglements
- countableuncountableThe condition of something that is draggled.
- countableuncountableSomething that is draggled.
This is Henry sneering at the town and its dregs and dragglements, as he did at New York in his letters and his journals, not, I should say, Thoreau sneering at democracy.
1943, Henry Seidel Canby, Walt Whitman: An American (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943, p. 154)
Origin
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APA
dragglement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dragglement
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“dragglement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dragglement. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dragglement,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dragglement.
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