Literary notes about Confounded (AI summary)
Literary authors employ the word "confounded" in nuanced ways to heighten emotion, clarify distinctions, or underscore a character’s cognitive disarray. It can express frustration or irritation, as when a character exclaims in annoyance, “Get out of my sight, you confounded fellow!” [1] or laments an unexpected difficulty that “quite confounded” him [2]. In other contexts, it accentuates feelings of shame or bewilderment, such as in moments of bashfulness or moral reproach [3, 4, 5]. At times, "confounded" is even used in a more technical manner to prevent the merging of distinct ideas or entities [6, 7]. Through these varied uses, the term enriches narratives by conveying both internal turmoil and deliberate clarification in the unfolding drama of the text.
- Get out of my sight, you confounded fellow!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - This difficulty for a long time quite confounded me.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - Then, turning to her, where she stood, all shamefast and confounded, he said to her, 'Griselda, wilt thou have me to thy husband?'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio - Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded in mind, because that every man heard them speak in his own tongue.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - The term Tandān must not be confounded with the Tandars, a people of the Palghāt tāluk, who appear to be allied to the Izhuvans.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston - It must not be confounded with the older but probably now less common verb acaparrar , whose meaning is entirely different.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
