Both Uses
perplex
in
Pride and Prejudice
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- Mrs. Bennet still continued to wonder and repine at his returning no more, and though a day seldom passed in which Elizabeth did not account for it clearly, there was little chance of her ever considering it with less perplexity.†
p. 135.2 *perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- Mrs. Gardiner went away in all the perplexity about Elizabeth and her Derbyshire friend that had attended her from that part of the world.†
p. 283.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(perplex) to confuse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)