discomfit

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The commentary seems to me evenly divided between those who are delighted at Windschuttle's discomfit, and those who are horrified by the deception, whether or not they like Windschuttle and his public record.

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  1. transitive verb To make uneasy or perplexed; disconcert. See Synonyms at embarrass.
  2. transitive verb To thwart the plans of; frustrate.
  3. transitive verb Archaic To defeat in battle; vanquish.
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  • That, I swear to you, was all it did--discomfit him. —  171 - The Monkey Suit
  • The commentary seems to me evenly divided between those who are delighted at Windschuttle's discomfit, and those who are horrified by the deception, whether or not they like Windschuttle and his public record. —  PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
  • And so upon a day it befel that King Labor and King Hurlame had assembled their folk upon the sea where this ship was arrived; and there King Hurlame was discomfit, and his men slain; and he was afeard to be dead, and fled to his ship, and there found this sword and drew it, and came out and found King Labor, the man in the world of all Christendom in whom was then the greatest faith. —  Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • And all his folk discomfit, slain and lost, —  Jerusalem Delivered
  • She imagined that this declaration would silence and discomfit Wilkie, but she was mistaken. —  Baron Trigault's Vengeance
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  1. Middle English discomfiten, from Old French desconfit, past participle of desconfire, descumfire, to defeat : des-, dis- + confire, to make (from Latin cōnficere, to prepare; see comfit).

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  1. from Middle English discomfiten, disconfiten (also by apheresis scomfiten: see scomfit), from Old French desconfit (from Middle Latin disconfectus, disconfictus), past participle of desconfire, descunfire, descumfire, desconfir, French déconfire = Provencal desconfir = Italian disconfiggere, sconfiggere, from Middle Latin disconficere, defeat, rout, discomfit, from Latin dis- privative + conficere, achieve, accomplish, from con- (intensive) + facere, do: see dis- and comfit, confect.
  2. from discomfit, v.
 

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