Meaning of perplexedness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being perplexed; bafflement; confusion.
   uncountable
2. The quality of being intricate, complicated or entangled.
   obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“–Why do you wish⟳ to marry⟳ him? he persisted. She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness. He is my husband, she said, with the word that does not quite mean⟳ husband.”

“1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Awnsham & John Churchil, 4th edition, 1700, Book 4, Chapter 8, Section 11, p. 317, […] most Writers are so far from instructing us in the Nature and Knowledge of Things, that they use⟳ their Words loosly and uncertainly, and do not, by using them constantly and steadily in the same signification, make⟳ plain and clear deductions of Words one from another, and make⟳ their Discourses coherent and clear, (how little soever it were instructive), which were not difficult to do, did they not find⟳ it convenient to shelter⟳ their Ignorance or Obstinacy, under the Obscurity and perplexedness of their Terms […]”

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