discomfiture

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Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
23
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/dɪsˈkʌmfɪtʃə(ɹ)/ (UK)
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/dɪsˈkʌmfɪtʃə(ɹ)/ (UK) · /dɪsˈkʊmfɪtʃə/ (UK)

Definition of discomfiture

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Defeat in battle.
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noun

  1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Defeat in battle.
  2. (countable, uncountable)An emotional state similar to that arising from defeat; frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment.
    “Some of us are concerned because as yet the South shows no penitence. But what exactly do we mean by this? Since down to the close of the war she never confessed any for braving it, the only penitence now left her is that which springs solely from the sense of discomfiture; and since this evidently would be a contrition hypocritical, it would be unworthy in us to demand it.”
    “One of them ended its career as a passenger carrying vehicle in 1907, by freezing in Kemp Town Tunnel, to the discomfiture of some important season ticket holders, who did not hesitate to let the directors know what they thought about the incident.”
    “Other countries are not so much angry as avid to exploit the discomfiture of the US or the chaos in the region or both.”

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Etymology

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

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