[f. CONFOUND + -ING1.] The action of the verb CONFOUND.
c. 1450. Lonelich, Grail, xxxviii. 88. Vppon þe wete Se to maken my weye with-owten Confowndyng.
1570. Ascham, Scholem. (Arb.), 57. The confounding of companies breedeth confusion of good maners.
1661. J. Stephens, Procurations. But thats confounding, and not extinguishment.
1847. Emerson, Repres. Men, Swedenborg, Wks. (Bohn), I. 332. A confounding of planes.
1889. T. Kerslake, Athenæum, 27 April, 539/2. This mischievous confounding of … terms.
