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Etymology

Etymology tree English baffling Middle English -ly English -ly English bafflingly From baffling + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a baffling or puzzling manner.
   • As I tried to catch the words which the stoutly-fashioned floor so bafflingly intercepted, I was also conscious of a great deal of stirring and scratching and shuffling in the room below; so that I could not escape the impression that it was full of living beings—many more than the few whose speech I could single out. 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
   • To define is to specify, to trace limits; and whatever this 'something' is, it seems at once bafflingly specific and yet bafflingly without limits. 1974, Samuel Louis Goldberg, An Essay on King Lear, →ISBN, page 162:

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