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noun

Bewilderment n.

The state of being bewildered.

A bewildering tangle or confusion. "He... soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bewilderment" Quotes from Famous Books

... he came upon the happiest-looking man he had ever seen, with his arms about an amazingly pretty girl. Not just the sort of thing a lone forest ranger counts upon stumbling upon on the top of a mountain. Greene stared in bewilderment. Bud Lee turning a ...

— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory

... he wailed, in youthful bewilderment. "I did try to get you to stay at that hotel in town ...

— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis

... volumes of Adams arrived along with yours of October 6th. One of the dictionaries has also blundered home, apparently from the Colonies; the other is still to seek. I note and sympathise with your bewilderment as to Falesa. My own direct correspondence with Mr. Baxter is now about three months in abeyance. Altogether you see how well it would be if you could do anything to wake up the Post Office. Not a single ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... far as I knew, not the most ardent Churchman in Oxford felt at that time any absorbing interest in the Councils of Toledo. At any rate, I had been left in undisturbed possession of them for months. Evidently something was happening, and I sat down to my work in bewilderment. ...

— A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume I • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... Pat what was the young gentleman's name. Mick answered for himself. She rose from her stool with a screech: "Michael Darragh! Is that who ye are? Mother a' God! an' yer father's gun in his han'." Mick turned in bewilderment to Pat, but he was leaning against the wall, shaking all over. "In the name of God," he was saying. Then he took the gun away, and hurried Mick out of the cottage. "I niver knew that was who ye were," he said; "I made sure you ...

— The Weans at Rowallan • Kathleen Fitzpatrick

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