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Definition of Dumfounds
1. dumfound [v] - See also: dumfound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumfounds
Literary usage of Dumfounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays on Great Writers by Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1903)
"... suppose this animal fact be the root from which springs the blossoming tree
of Divine love: this inherent power of growth dumfounds me more, ..."
2. Physic and Physicians: A Medical Sketch Book, Exhibiting the Public and by Forbes Winslow (1845)
"... learning, and eloquence, in its perversion, and so dumfounds, in the midst of
learned jargon, the poor jury and the unfortunate persons examined. ..."
3. Glimpses of the Ages: Or, The "superior" and "inferior" Races, So-called by Theophilus E. Samuel Scholes (1908)
"... claim is made only by the " man in the street," and that it is made by him
only " in his most unreasoning mood—when lynching is afoot," dumfounds me. ..."
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