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Definition of Dumbfounding
1. Adjective. Bewildering or striking dumb with wonder.
Definition of Dumbfounding
1. Verb. (present participle of ''dumbfound'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dumbfounding
1. dumbfound [v] - See also: dumbfound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dumbfounding
Literary usage of Dumbfounding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... dumbfounding, a stupefying; said to mean a rough amusement in which one person
struck another hard and stealthily upon the back; 'That witty recreation, ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1900)
"Selling facetious bargains, and propounding I see him ogle still, and hear him
chat; 45 That witty recreation, called dumbfounding, t Their loss with ..."
3. Some Contemporary Poets (1920) by Harold Monro, Thomas Sturge Moore (1920)
"As reason wakes, lads find themselves asked to accept not only the dumbfounding
universe but monstrous social and political accumulations; and, ..."
4. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"From the latter he took his taste for aerial movement, for figures hovering in
mid-ajr, soaring overhead, riding on clouds, dumbfounding the spectator ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"It was dumbfounding to think that while in all my ornithological observations in
this section I had never seen a score of ..."
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