All 8 Uses
perplex
in
The Age of Innocence
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- Archer was proud of the glances turned on her, and the simple joy of possessorship cleared away his underlying perplexities.†
Chpt 10 *perplexities = things that confuse
- Old Mr. Letterblair, the accredited legal adviser of three generations of New York gentility, throned behind his mahogany desk in evident perplexity.†
Chpt 11perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- Archer looked at her perplexedly, wondering if it were lightness or dissimulation that enabled her to touch so easily on the past at the very moment when she was risking her reputation in order to break with it.†
Chpt 12
- "I understand—that you were right," she went on a little breathlessly; "but sometimes life is difficult ...perplexing..."†
Chpt 13perplexing = confusing due to complexity
- He tried to enter into her perplexity.†
Chpt 20perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- He continued to stare at M. Riviere perplexedly, wondering how to tell him that his very superiorities and advantages would be the surest hindrance to success.†
Chpt 20
- She frowned perplexedly, and then smiled.†
Chpt 23
- He stood grasping his light valise in one neatly gloved hand, and gazing anxiously, perplexedly, almost appealingly, into Archer's face.†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(perplex) to confuse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)