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puzzlement|ˈpʌz(ə)lmənt|
[f. puzzle v. + -ment.]
The fact or condition of being puzzled; perplexity, bewilderment, confusion.
1822Moore Mem. (1853) III. 350 Four invitations to dinner on my list to-day, but, owing to some puzzlement about Holland House, lost all. 1833Blackw. Mag. XXXIII. 839 His mind between the two must be in a queer puzzlement. 1874Ruskin Hortus Inclusus (1887) 8 The puzzlement I have had to force that sentence into grammar! 1880McCarthy Own Time IV. lxv. 472 To avoid the possibility of any historical misunderstanding or puzzlement hereafter.
b. Anything that puzzles; a puzzle.
1842G. S. Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) I. 78 In short, Dr. Todd's ingenious puzzlement works altogether upon the false principle, that no more than four horns came up. 1881Spectator 29 Oct. 1368 A puzzlement for some of the wisest antiquarian heads of Europe. 1893N. & Q. 8th Ser. IV. 313/2 Examiners in our own day are not always innocent of similar sprightly puzzlements. |