All 6 Uses
perplex
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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- Nor could he expect her to talk with him about the deep things that were here in Johannesburg; for it was amongst these very things that saddened and perplexed him, that she had found her life and occupation.†
Chpt 1.10perplexed = confused or puzzled
- The young man was silent awhile, and he frowned in perplexity or anger.†
Chpt 1.10perplexity = confusion due to complexity
- She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness.†
Chpt 1.16perplexedness = the quality of being confused or puzzled
- There is a further difficulty in this perplexing case.†
Chpt 2.28perplexing = confusing due to complexity
- He sat frowning and perplexed.†
Chpt 3.31perplexed = confused or puzzled
- And while he was waiting he looked at the counsellors who stood behind the chief, and he saw too that they were frowning and perplexed, and that for this matter there was no counsel that they could give at all.
Chpt 3.31 *perplexed = baffled (confused--not knowing what to do)
Definitions:
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(1)
(perplex) to confuse
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)