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[[File: Confusion large.jpg|right|frame|<center>[http://www.ursulakleguin.com/EricBeddows/05-Confusion_l.html from the book Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin and Illustrated by Eric Beddows]]]</center>
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*1. Discomfiture, overthrow, ruin, destruction, perdition. ? Obs.
*1. Discomfiture, overthrow, ruin, destruction, perdition. ? Obs.
:b. A cause of overthrow or ruin. (Cf. ruin.)
:b. A [[cause]] of overthrow or ruin. (Cf. ruin.)
:c. as an imprecation or exclamation. (Cf. CONFOUND 2.)
:c. as an imprecation or exclamation. (Cf. CONFOUND 2.)
*2. Mental discomfiture, putting to shame.
*2. Mental discomfiture, putting to [[shame]].
:b. Overthrow or discomfiture in argument; confutation. Obs.
:b. Overthrow or discomfiture in [[argument]]; confutation. Obs.
*3. Mental perturbation or agitation such as prevents the full command of the faculties; embarrassment, perplexity, fluttered condition.
*3. Mental perturbation or agitation such as prevents the full command of the faculties; embarrassment, perplexity, fluttered condition.
*4. The action of confounding, confusing, or throwing into disorder: spec. in reference to the ‘confusion of tongues’ at the tower of Babel.
*4. The action of confounding, confusing, or throwing into disorder: spec. in reference to the ‘confusion of tongues’ at the tower of Babel.
