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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1590, 1650
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(Perplexit-,) Perplexedly(e, adv. [e.m.E. perplexedly confusedly (1617), in this sense (1693).] With bewilderment or perplexity. — c1590 Fowler I. 169/4.
Euen as the painfull pylot … Perplexedlye drawes narr and shunns the cost 1650 Psalmes of David (1650) cxlii. iv.
My spirit is therefore overwhelm'd in me, perplexedly
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