Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Perplexity.

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  • noun Perplexity.

Etymologies

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From bepuzzle +‎ -ment.

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Examples

  • The three men looked their bepuzzlement at one another.

    Chapter IV 2010

  • But the world would have puzzled over his bepuzzlement rather than over the little thing that to him loomed gigantic.

    Chapter 43 2010

  • The three men looked their bepuzzlement at one another.

    Chapter IV 1910

  • But the world would have puzzled over his bepuzzlement rather than over the little thing that to him loomed gigantic.

    Chapter 43 1908

  • He had studied them intently, ranging from one to another and back again, and I could see that there was uncertainty in his mind, and bepuzzlement.

    The Sun Dog Trail 1907

  • "One man is killing the other man," I said, aware of a distinct bepuzzlement of my own and of failure to explain.

    The Sun Dog Trail 1907

  • "One man is killing the other man," I said, aware of a distinct bepuzzlement of my own and of failure to explain.

    The Sundog Trail 1905

  • He had studied them intently, ranging from one to another and back again, and I could see that there was uncertainty in his mind, and bepuzzlement.

    The Sundog Trail 1905

  • He had studied them intently, ranging from one to another and back again, and I could see that there was uncertainty in his mind, and bepuzzlement.

    THE SUN DOG TRAIL 1905

  • "One man is killing the other man," I said, aware of a distinct bepuzzlement of my own and of a failure to explain.

    The Sun-dog Trail 1905

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