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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> | | [[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. |