Definition of Confoundingly

1. Adverb. In a confounding way. ¹

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Definition of Confoundingly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confoundingly

conformists
conformities
conformity
conforms
confound
confounded
confoundedly
confoundedness
confounder
confounders
confoundest
confoundeth
confounding
confounding factor
confounding variable
confoundingly
confounds
confraternal
confraternities
confraternity
confraternization
confraters
confrere
confreres
confront
confrontal
confrontals
confrontation
confrontation method
confrontational

Literary usage of Confoundingly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"An exceedingly and confoundingly perplexing jumble of a school, in fact, where black spirits and grey, ..."

2. The Christian Examiner (1857)
"... where they manufacture young preachers like they do lettuce in hot-houses," it is easy to see how " confoundingly miraculous" it must be to him " that ..."

3. The Biblical Repertory and Theological Review by Charles Hodge, Peter Walker (1831)
"Why—in eventual inability in all the machines he reigns over to do his will; an inability absolute and known confoundingly; physical and fatal in effect, ..."

4. The Methodist Review (1873)
"... enjoyed by their present successors, it is confoundingly miraculous to me that our modern preachers cannot preach better, and do more good than they do. ..."

5. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"In this confoundingly vast and complex field, what can the pedagogue now do? Shall he go on teaching the old matter by old methods served in new attractive ..."

6. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"... all together, the strangest of circles and the newest of experiences, in which the unforgettable and the unimaginable were confoundingly mixed. ..."

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