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Discomfit   Listen
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Discomfit  n.  Rout; overthrow; discomfiture. "Such a discomfit as shall quite despoil him."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Discomfit" Quotes from Famous Books



... me, Hagen?" spake the lordly king. "For thine own prowess' sake discomfit me no more, but seek us the ford across to the other bank, that we may take hence both ...
— The Nibelungenlied • Unknown

... the limited capacity and formal shape of the doctrinal moulds in which they were cast; for wherever there is genuine religious feeling and experience, it will now and then crack the prisoning pitcher, and let some brilliant ray of the indwelling glory out, to discomfit the beleaguering hosts of ...
— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... here in garrison some captain with a small band of men to hold the place, which seems to us pretty strong, both by nature and by the fortifications you have contrived. You will, as you know well, divide your army in half. One half will fall upon this fellow Grandgousier and his people, and easily discomfit him at the first assault. There we shall gain money in heaps, for the rascal has plenty. (Rascal we call him, because a really noble prince never has a penny. To hoard is the ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury



Words linked to "Discomfit" :   abash, hurt, bewilder, elicit, provoke, dissolve, enkindle, discompose, untune, evoke, discombobulate, raise, fire, disconcert, enervate, throw, anguish, discomfiture, arouse, faze, kindle, bemuse, unsettle, pain, upset, unnerve, embarrass



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