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- When we got up to go, Peter looked about in perplexity for something that would entertain us.†
Book 1perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- Grandmother looked about in perplexity.†
Book 1
- He seemed to find this case very perplexing,
Book 1 *perplexing = confusing due to complexity
- He seemed so perplexed that I thought perhaps he hadn't enough money, after all.†
Book 2perplexed = confused or puzzled
- Her Armand was disproportionately young and slight, a handsome youth, perplexed in the extreme.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(perplex) to confuse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)