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Definition of Befogging
1. befog [v] - See also: befog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Befogging
Literary usage of Befogging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Half-hours with the Best American Authors by Charles Morris (1886)
"befogging A GUIDE. European guides know about enough English to tangle everything
up so that a man can make neither head nor tail of it. ..."
2. The Writing of English by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1920)
"And his interest may be screwed up—tightened—in two ways: (1) by befogging him,
and (2) by misleading him. befogging him means so complicating the episodes ..."
3. Lectures on the Early History of Christianity in England with Sermons by Thomas Winthrop Coit (1859)
"... as a mere chimera of old monkish brains, befogging themselves, as well as
befogging others. They would gladly bury it in dusty death, amid the forlorn ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... and, hence, the less excuse for the cumbering and befogging of the literature
which has resulted from careless, hasty and thoughtless work. ..."
5. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... is no petty and befogging detail. The characters, the events, or the arguments
stand out with clearness, even with boldness. An inclusive and central ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"... the general scientific public the personal, befogging and dogmatic rejoinder
which it evoked in a recent issue of SCIENCE from one not a geologist. ..."
7. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1900)
"... of befogging the real issue by an appeal to ancient prejudices. Virginia, in
reality, cares little or nothing for the Alien and Sedition Laws ; it is ..."
8. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
"The befogging effect, even on a vigorous intellect, of surrender to Ibsenism is
well illustrated by the published remarks on Ibsen made by that actress. ..."
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