Meanings
plural confoundments
- uncountableThe state of being confounded.
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Peter stood on the bow in the powerful headwinds gazing that way with an inexpressible sense of amazement and expectation, full of confoundment that in that direction, to which they slowly pushed, there could be no warm light and comfort and no friend, only the North, the far White North as ruthless and indifferent as the ocean’s own overlowering night.
1950, Jack Kerouac, chapter 3, in The Town & the City (A Harvest Book), New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, section 10, pages 302–303 - countableSomething which is or has been confounded.
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confoundment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/confoundment
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