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Bewilderment   /bɪwˈɪldərmənt/   Listen
noun
Bewilderment  n.  
1.
The state of being bewildered.
2.
A bewildering tangle or confusion. "He... soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush."





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"Bewilderment" Quotes from Famous Books



... washed linen, spread to dry in the sun; a number of houses at odds with one another and grotesquely out of the perpendicular, like rotten pre-Adamite cheeses cut into fantastic shapes and full of mites; and a feverish bewilderment of windows, with their lattice-blinds all hanging askew, and something draggled and dirty dangling ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... confronted by an intangible, sinister, and inescapable influence. The young clergyman seemed to darken and oppress both women. It was as if they were all leagued in a conspiracy to deceive and cajole. This bewilderment lasted but a moment, and he rose from his chair with a spring. "Well, now, play something else—give us a bit of rag-time; that last piece has left us all a little dashed—try ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... which he could draw even the most superficial deduction till he came to the writing-desk. Here a heap of bills were transfixed by a long skewer, and at his first glance at the uppermost his face assumed an expression of almost ludicrous bewilderment. He actually rubbed his eyes before ...
— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston
... arm—all twisted—broken," and his voice sank into a faint whisper; Ethel was obliged to sprinkle him again with water. "But he won't die?" said she, in a tone calm from its bewilderment. ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... life is that head-light axiom, "Man proposes, God disposes," so often flashed plump in the eyes of enthusiastic travellers for their bewilderment or befuddlement as in finance. At this very moment of success I was, without knowing it, on the brink of ruin, owing to causes and conditions which were beyond human power to calculate or foresee. Here ...
— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson


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