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Definition of In great confusion
1. Adverb. In disorderly haste. "We ran head over heels toward the shelter"
Lexicographical Neighbors of In Great Confusion
Literary usage of In great confusion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1881)
"... works — Enthusiasm of troops — Grant faces Meade's command eastward and envelops
Petersburg—Rebel army falling back in great confusion—Fighting in front ..."
2. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1882)
"... works — Enthusiasm of troops — Grant faces Meade's command eastward and envelops
Petersburg—Rebel army falling back in great confusion—Fighting in front ..."
3. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"Paris letters say, an expresse from Constantinople advises that the Turkish
affairs are in great confusion, and that nothing but a truce with the Christians ..."
4. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1823)
"As his friends pressed towards him in great confusion, the Spartans came boldly
up, and making good use of ..."
5. Diary of Thomas Robbins, D. D., 1796-1854 by Thomas Robbins (1887)
"Congress are doing better; in great confusion. Last evening read in Prescott's
Ferdinand and Isabella? A good work. Wrote a sermon on Ps. cxlii: 7. ..."
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