Meanings
nounperplexment (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state of being perplexed; perplexity.First known use 19th c.
Colin Leverett studied it in perplexment – half a dozen odd lengths of branch, wired together at cross angles for no fathomable purpose.
1974, Karl Edward Wagner, Sticks
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