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Example sentences for "confounding"

Lexicographically close words:
conforte; confound; confounde; confounded; confoundedly; confounds; confraternities; confraternity; confrere; confreres
  1. It does not explain the nummuline wall, which has to be separately accounted for by confounding it, contrary to the observed facts, with the veins of fibrous serpentine which actually pass through cracks in the fossil.

  2. From confounding signs with causes came the worship of the sun and stars.

  3. Idolatry grew out of the confounding of the symbol with the object symbolized, 600-u.

  4. The author has here fallen into an error in confounding Beaudesert, near Henley in Arden, with a place of the same name, near Cannock Chase.

  5. These mutual misunderstandings were to the full as confounding to him as to her; he had to combat her errors, and at the same time ask himself what his own consisted of.

  6. He falls into his usual error of confounding the daughter of Nisus with the daughter of Phorcys.

  7. Footnote 1230: Confounding one for the other.

  8. He would apprize his friend from Georgia of an error which he had fallen into, in confounding monopolies with patent rights.

  9. As to the first assertion, it is a miserable fallacy, confounding coincidence of interest with subjection of will; things in their nature palpably distinct.

  10. Yet we should not be praised for doing this, were it not that many holy sons of their most loving mother the Catholic Church had done the same under the necessity of confounding heretics.

  11. Wherefore he that disturbs another's conscience by confounding him inflicts a special injury on him: hence derision is a special kind of sin.

  12. It is to poison the very fountains of justice, by confounding all moral distinctions.

  13. But it forbids confounding the distinctions between a Jew and a Stranger, by assigning the former to the same grade of service, for the same term of time, and under the same political disabilities as the latter.

  14. It is creditable to them, satisfactory to their employers, and confounding to those who anticipated a contrary state of affairs.

  15. But it forbids, confounding the distinctions between a Jew and a Stranger, by assigning the former to the same grade of service, for the same term of time, and under the same national and political disabilities as the latter.

  16. But it forbids confounding the distinctions between a Jew and a Stranger, by assigning the former to the same grade of service, for the same term of time and under the same political disabilities as the latter.

  17. Do they (the abolitionists) not perceive that in thus confounding all the distinctions which GOD himself has made, they arraign the wisdom and goodness of Providence itself?

  18. Thus they sat in crowded contact, seemingly unconscious that they were outraging good taste, violating natural laws, and "confounding distinctions of divine appointment!

  19. We must not shrink from the danger of occasionally making a mistake and confounding the less accessible good with the bad and imperfect.

  20. It is this latter, in especial, which imparts to a work of art so much of that richness (to borrow from colloquy a forcible term) which we are too fond of confounding with the ideal.

  21. She cannot help confounding the people with the country, and regarding us as lusty juveniles.

  22. This misconception of his own position, or rather his confounding the two characters of possible candidate and actual general, forced the growth of whatever egotism was latent in his nature.

  23. It is therefore for the conviction of the fallen angels, and for the confounding of all those cavils that can be invented and objected against our salvation by those most subtle and envious ones.

  24. Marsham fell, like many others after him, into the unfortunate mistake of confounding Sesostris with Sesac.

  25. But the difficulty of absolute discrimination is no reason for neglecting the broad general contrast; any more than it is for confounding light with darkness.

  26. The manner of it is arch and surprising, and the narration infinitely naive; the matter is the old fallacy of confounding miracles (things happening out of nature) with natural things, the grounds of which we cannot explain.

  27. Either the vindictive God in mercy had spared this young maiden, or the wrath of the confounding Cupid was restrained by a Higher Power from discharging the most malignant of his arrows against the peace of so much innocence.

  28. This wilful confounding of motives and circumstances, which make all the difference of moral or immoral in actions, just suits the sort of talent which some of my acquaintance pride themselves upon.

  29. I trust the Lord will give me grace so to conduct myself, as that I may never be suspected of confounding the two together, which, by the nature of the ordinances, ought to be kept as separate and distinct as possible.

  30. For himself I had long felt the most profound contempt; but I had hitherto shrunk from the impiety of confounding the doctrine and the teacher.

  31. His smile was potent with his pupils being both their reward and punishment; to the deserving it was a benediction, to the unfaithful it was a mocking grin, confounding and abashing them.

  32. It comes of confounding intelligence with the popular process of education.

  33. She was also one of those very few whom Providence favours by confounding dissentients.

  34. We have before us the magnificent spectacle of a Man standing in the presence of the devil and utterly confounding him with no other weapon whatsoever save the Word of God.

  35. We have but little idea of the injury done, both to the truth of God and to the souls of His people, by confounding Israel with the Church--the earthly and the heavenly.


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    Other words:
    amazing; answer; appalling; astonishing; astounding; baffling; balk; bewildering; breathtaking; check; checkmate; complex; confusion; contradiction; contradictory; contrary; defeat; defeating; demolition; denial; discomfiture; disconcerting; dismaying; disturbing; embarrassing; enigmatic; foil; frustration; inexplicable; intricate; marvelous; misleading; mysterious; mystifying; overthrow; overwhelming; perplexing; perturbing; problematic; problematical; puzzling; rebuttal; refutation; refuting; spectacular; squelch; staggering; startling; stunning; subversion; surprising; thwarting; undermining; upset; upsetting