perplexly
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
perplexly (comparative more perplexly, superlative most perplexly)
- (obsolete) perplexedly
- 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
- This is the ſumme of what paſs'd in three years against the Danes, returning out of France, ſet down ſo perplexly by the saxon Annaliſt , ill - guiſted with utterance
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “perplexly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)