Both Uses of
perturb
in
Don Quixote
- When Don Quixote heard this his amazement was redoubled and his perturbation grew greater than ever,
Chpt 2.55-56 *perturbation = disturbance of mind
- Don Quixote stood up and laid his hand upon his sword, and Sancho ensconced himself under Dapple and put the bundle of armour on one side of him and the ass's pack-saddle on the other, in fear and trembling as great as Don Quixote's perturbation.†
Chpt 2.67-68
Definitions:
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(1)
(perturb as in: she was perturbed) to disturb in mind or make uneasy
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) in physics or astronomy: a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly