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perplexedly, adv.|pəˈplɛksɪdlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a perplexed manner.
1. With mental perplexity or bewilderment.
1650Sc. Metr. Ps. cxliii. iv, My spirit is therefore overwhelm'd in me, perplexedly. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxv. 210 Most perplexedly desirous to know the Name, of him who should be his Successor. 1827G. S. Faber Sacr. Calend. Prophecy (1844) III. 356 All persons seem to be perplexedly looking out for a crisis of some description or other. 1870Burton Hist. Scot. (1873) VII. lxxv. 33 A point on which many were perplexedly meditating and doubting.
2. In an involved, intricate, or confused manner; intricately, confusedly, ambiguously, obscurely. Now rare or Obs.
1617Hales Serm. 6 Going about rather perplexedly to search the controversies, then grauely to compose them. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. i. ii. 16 It is a wonder to heare how doubtfully and perplexedly..they will..prate of the patients sicknesse. 1706J. Gardiner tr. Rapin on Gard. ii. 68 There Trees, confus'd and wild, perplextly stay, Observe no Order, and no Laws obey. 1796T. Green Diary Lover of Lit. (1810) 12 The intermediate materials are capriciously divided and perplexedly arranged. |