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discomfiture (dɪsˈkʌmfɪtjʊə(r)) Forms: 4 desconfiture, 5 -comfiture, 4– dis-. See also the shortened scomfiture. [a. OF. desconfiture rout, defeat (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), F. déconfiture, = Pr. descofitura, OIt. sconfittura, med.L. disconfectūra, f. disconficĕre to rout, overthrow (Du Cange): see d...
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discomfiture
discomfiture/dɪsˈkʌmfɪtʃə(r); dɪs`kʌmfɪtʃɚ/ n[U] a look, air, expression, etc of discomfiture 狼狈的神色、 样子、 表情等.
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Philotas (phrourarch)
vigorously besieged by the citizens, he was able to hold out until the arrival of Alexander, and the capture of the city, when he contributed greatly to the discomfiture
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scomfiture
† ˈscomfiture Obs. Forms: 4 scomfitour, 5 scom-, skomfiture, -fyture, -fytour, -fertour, scumfetore. [Shortened f. discomfiture.] Discomfiture, defeat.13.. Guy Warw. 5235 Wel gret it was þe scomfitour. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 1561 Skilfulle skomfyture he skiftez as hym lykez. c 1450 Brut 439 But God wa...
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Aleksander Midtsian
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Because of a transfer technicality, Midtsian was unable to play in the opening round of the 2003-04 National Soccer League, much to the discomfiture
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Unscramble DEFEAT - Unscrambled 56 words from letters in DEFEAT
Defeat. An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory. An undoing or annulling; destruction. Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design. Click here for the full meaning of Defeat. Is Defeat a Scrabble Word? is defeat a ...
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Joel Lieber
Kirkus Reviews wrote, "One reads this with the literal discomfiture generated by Sylvia Plath's The Glass Bell [sic]—as the late Joel Lieber who appears
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discomforture
† disˈcomforture Obs. rare. [f. discomfort v.: cf. discomfiture.] Discomfort, distress.1559 Primer in Priv. Prayers (1851) 92 My heart is almost like to brast, so great is my discomforture.
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Cornelius Evans
Evans, far from showing any discomfiture, coolly ordered the mayor to take the courtier into custody.
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Exchange of Wives
and his emotional wife become acquainted with a frivolous young man and his serious minded wife, and it is not long before like attracts like, to the discomfiture
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confusible
conˈfusible, a. [a. L. type confūsibil-is (cf. It. confusibile), f. confūs-, ppl. stem: see -ble.] 1. Involving confusion, discomfiture, or perdition. Obs.1502 Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) v. iii. 380 The tenth payne of the soule dampned is confusyble retrybucyon for foure thynges. 2. (See confu...
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Pietro Zeno (died 1345)
By the end of the year the Naval League, "a union, society and league for the discomfiture of the Turks and the defence of the true faith", had been formally
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Niall O'Higgin
This was the second poetical miracle performed by this Niall O'Higgin, the first being the discomfiture of the Clann-Conway the night they plundered Niall
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underdeal
† ˈunderdeal Obs.—1 [under-1 6 b.] Discomfiture.1553 R. Ascham Germany Wks. (1904) 144 He..should haue had that countrey his onely refuge, if that in warre he had come to any vnderdele.
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