Discomfiture Definition

dĭs-kŭmfĭ-cho͝or, -chər
noun
A discomfiting or being discomfited; frustration, confusion, etc.
Webster's New World
Lack of ease; perplexity and embarrassment.
American Heritage
Defeat.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Discomfiture

Noun

Singular:
discomfiture
Plural:
discomfitures

Origin of Discomfiture

  • From Old French desconfiture (“rout, defeat”) (French déconfiture).

    From Wiktionary

Discomfiture Sentence Examples

  • The first effect of Zeno's teaching was to complete the discomfiture of philosophy.

  • This shameful discomfiture quickened all the suspicion and jealousy fermenting in France.

  • But their discomfiture was only to last a few months; in the following October a wanton outrage and.

  • The magistrates successfully asserted themselves to the discomfiture of their critics (Ann Hutchinson being banished), and this was characteristic of the colony's early history.

  • The rulers, who desired peace, and upon whom Florus had laid the duty of restoring peace, asked him for troops; but the civil war ended in their complete discomfiture.

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