confoundment

If you had a time machine and travelled back the period of Nero or Hadrian and spoke of Jerusalem as an Islamic capital there would be total confoundment by any Roman.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

This was absolute confusion and confoundment that Chicago didn't get it.

CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2009 2009

Statements by Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson that they did not see the crisis coming convey the same sense of confoundment.

Michael de Portu: The Economy: Cycling Along With the Training Wheels On 2009

DOBBS: It's remarkable that this -- whatever confusion, or confoundment over 7,000 cases, they actually keep a registry of cases of leprosy.

CNN Transcript May 7, 2007 2007

Of course, while Brown sets himself up as using a skeptic and a debunker of frauds and charlatons with no real agenda in and of itself, he still has an agenda . . . to entertain us through confusion, confoundment, and illusion . . . and, he's quite good at it.

Life of Brian: 2005

Of course, while Brown sets himself up as using a skeptic and a debunker of frauds and charlatons with no real agenda in and of itself, he still has an agenda . . . to entertain us through confusion, confoundment, and illusion . . . and, he's quite good at it.

Derren Brown . . .Something Wicked 2005

Liza and Art gave each other a look of mutual confoundment, then Liza joined her husband on the carpeted stairs.

The Good House Tananarive Due 2003

To her utter confoundment, he put his arms around her and held her to him.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

To her utter confoundment, he put his arms around her and held her to him.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

A gentle attempt to pluck these pedals was not met with success, which only amplified my perplexity and confoundment.

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