Both Uses of
disconcerting
in
Northanger Abbey
- The Tilneys called for her at the appointed time; and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able to fulfil her engagement, though it was made with the hero himself.†
Chpt 14
- They had seldom seen him eat so heartily at any table but his own, and never before known him so little disconcerted by the melted butter's being oiled.†
Chpt 26 *
Definition:
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(disconcerting) disrupt composure -- such as to confuse or worry