"perplext" meaning in All languages combined

See perplext on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more perplext [comparative], most perplext [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} perplext (comparative more perplext, superlative most perplext)
  1. Obsolete spelling of perplexed Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: perplexed
    Sense id: en-perplext-en-adj-0vNb4TTF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753)",
          "text": "By spleen, religion, all we know; That should enlighten here below, Is veiled in darkness, and perplext With anxious doubts, with endless scruples vext And some restraint imply'd from each perverted text; Whilst touch not, taste not what is freely given, Is but thy niggard voice disgracing bounteous Heaven.",
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          "ref": "1805, Charles Lamb, Farewell to Tobacco",
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          "ref": "1874, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King",
          "text": "What might she mean by that? his large black eyes, Yet larger through his leanness, dwelt upon her, Till all her heart's sad secret blazed itself In the heart's colours on her simple face; And Lancelot looked and was perplext in mind, And being weak in body said no more; But did not love the colour; woman's love, Save one, he not regarded, and so turned Sighing, and feigned a sleep until he slept.",
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