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confusion worse confounded
Complete confusion, deriving from a usage by Milton in Paradise Lost (1667).
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The Oxford Bible Commentary
...28 ). David's advance up the Mount of Olives ( vv. 30–1 ), which breaks the sequence of the five conversations, has been described as a pilgrimage or an act of penance. It was a march undertaken in sorrow and humility, which is mixed with a prayer that Ahithophel's counsel be confounded. A third conversation occurred between David and Hushai of the Archite clan of Benjamin ( vv. 32–7 ); it has been suggested that his appearance ‘where God was worshipped’ was a direct reply to David's prayer in v. 31 , for he is commissioned as an informer in order to defeat...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (5 ed.)
...of St Gennys (Cornwall) is sometimes identified with Genesius of Arles , but the fact that his feast is kept in Cornwall in 2 May (and not on 25 August ) probably points to the cult of an obscure local founder, later identified with the more famous Genesius . The confusion is worse confounded by William Worcestre's entry: ‘There were three brothers of the name of Genesius, each one of whom carried his head and one was archbishop of Lismore.’ Each of these statements is false. The head-relics enshrined in the canons' church at Launceston were identified...
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