Confound vs Shame - What's the difference?
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To confuse; to mix up; to puzzle.
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To fail to see the difference; to mix up; to confuse right and wrong.
* 1651 (Latin edition 1642), ,
To make something worse.
* 1983 , Carol M. Anderson, Susan Stewart, Mastering Resistance: A Practical Guide to Family Therapy ,
To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
To defeat, to frustrate, to thwart.
* 1769 , King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, , i, 27,
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* 1848 February 12, ,
(dated) To damn (a mild oath ).
* 1882 , '' in ''The Gully of Bluemansdyke and Other Stories ,
*1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
*:"Confound these bearing reins!" he said to himself; "I thought we should have some mischief soon—master will be sorely vexed;
(archaic) To bring to ruination.
To stun, amaze
Uncomfortable]] or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of impropriety, dishonor or other wrong in the opinion of the person experiencing the feeling. It is caused by awareness of exposure of circumstances of [[unworthy, unworthiness or of improper or indecent conduct.
* (William Shakespeare)
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Something to regret.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Evelyn "Champagne" King, in the song Shame
Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
* Bible, (Ezekiel) xxxvi. 6
* (Alexander Pope)
* (Lord Byron)
The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) That which is shameful and private, especially body parts.
A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
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* 1831 ,
(South Africa) Expressing sympathy.
To feel shame, be ashamed.
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*:Broder she said I can not telle yow For it was not done by me nor by myn assente / For he is my lord and I am his / and he must be myn husband / therfore my broder I wille that ye wete I shame me not to be with hym / nor to doo hym alle the pleasyr that I can
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I do shame / To think of what a noble strain you are.
(label) To cause to feel shame.
:I was shamed by the teacher's public disapproval.
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:Were there but one righteous in the world, he wouldshame the world, and not the world him.
To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonour; to disgrace.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:And with foul cowardice his carcass shame .
(label) To mock at; to deride.
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*:Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Confound is a related term of shame.
In archaic|lang=en terms the difference between confound and shame
is that confound is (archaic) to bring to ruination while shame is (archaic) that which is shameful and private, especially body parts.As verbs the difference between confound and shame
is that confound is to confuse; to mix up; to puzzle while shame is to feel shame, be ashamed.As nouns the difference between confound and shame
is that confound is (statistics) a confounding variable while shame is uncomfortable]] or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of impropriety, dishonor or other wrong in the opinion of the person experiencing the feeling it is caused by awareness of exposure of circumstances of [[unworthy|unworthiness or of improper or indecent conduct.As an interjection shame is
a cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.confound
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Verb
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- And the brother of Jared being a large and mighty man, and a man highly favored of the Lord, Jared, his brother, said unto him: Cry unto the Lord, that he will not confound us that we may not understand our words.
- Hey who lesse seriously consider the force of words, doe sometimes confound' Law with Counsell, sometimes with Covenant, sometimes with Right. They ' confound Law with Counsell, who think, that it is the duty of Monarchs not onely to give ear to their Counsellours, but also to obey them, as though it were in vaine to take Counsell, unlesse it were also followed.
- Don't confound the situation by yelling.
- While she had obeyed him, smiling sweetly all the time, she had nursed a growing resentment of what she called his "Latin American macho attitude." To confound the problem, his mother, who lived with them on and off, was described by the wife as being as domineering as her son.
- His actions confounded the skeptics.
- But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound' the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to ' confound the things which are mighty;
- O Lord, our God, arise, / Scatter thine enemies, / And make them fall / Confound their politics, / Frustrate their knavish tricks, / On thee our hopes we fix: / God save us all.
- I am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them.
- Confound you!
- Confound the lady!
- "Number 43 is no better, Doctor," said the head-warder, in a slightly reproachful accent, looking in round the corner of my door.
- "Confound 43!" I responded from behind the pages of the Australian Sketcher .
Synonyms
* confuse * mix up * puzzleSynonyms
* confoundershame
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) , which may also be the source of heaven; see that entry for details. Compare also Persian .Noun
(-)- Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ?
- guides who are the shame of religion
- And what you do to me is a shame .
- Ye have borne the shame of the heathen.
- Honour and shame from no condition rise.
- And every woe a tear can claim / Except an erring sister's shame .
- guides who are the shame of religion
- Cover your shame !
Usage notes
* While shame is not generally counted, it is countable, for example *: I felt two shames: one for hurting my friend, and a greater one for lying about it.Synonyms
* (something regrettable) pityDerived terms
* body shame * crying shame * shame on you * shamefaced * shameful * shamefully * shameless * shamelesslyInterjection
(en interjection)Telecommunications Bill", Hansard
- Mr John Golding: One would not realise that it came from the same Government, because in that letter the Under-Secretary states: "The future of BT's pension scheme is a commercial matter between BT, its workforce, and the trustees of the pensions scheme, and the Government cannot give any guarantees about future pension arrangements."
- Mr. Charles R. Morris': ' Shame .
The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend
- [...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year''" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and ''has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever -- (Much tumult, and cries of "shame " and "doust the liars")
- Shame , you poor thing, you must be cold!