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▪ I. confounding, vbl. n.|kənˈfaʊndɪŋ|
[f. confound + -ing1.]
The action of the verb confound.
c1450Lonelich Grail xxxviii. 88 Vppon þe wete Se to maken my weye with-owten Confowndyng. 1570R. Ascham Scholem. (Arb.) 57 The confounding of companies breedeth confusion of good maners. 1661J. Stephens Procurations, But thats confounding, and not extinguishment. 1847Emerson Repres. Men, Swedenborg Wks. (Bohn) I. 332 A confounding of planes. 1889T. Kerslake in Athenæum 27 Apr. 539/2 This mischievous confounding of..terms.
▪ II. conˈfounding, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That confounds; destroying, confusing, perplexing, amazing, etc.: see the verb.
1597Daniel Civ. Wares v. lvi, The touch of a confounding flame. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 310 In this confounding age, wherein so much was demolished and aliened. a1711Ken Hymnarium Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 107 A confounding shame. 1861Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 156 The noise was so utterly confounding. |