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Definition of Disconcertment
1. Noun. Anxious embarrassment.
Generic synonyms: Embarrassment, Anxiety
Derivative terms: Discomfit, Discompose, Disconcert, Disconcert, Disconcert, Disconcert
Definition of Disconcertment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disconcertment
Literary usage of Disconcertment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1898)
"In 1705 Shrewsbury proceeded via Venice to Augsburg, where on 25 Aug. he, to the
disconcertment of his English friends, ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"... and liable to sudden disconcertment, is nevertheless essential, if sagacious
and continuous guidance is to be given to the course of a nation. ..."
3. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1850)
"The propriety of a force being left in the country is also supported by the same
authority, to the no small disconcertment of those immaculate guardians of ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
""No ; I have made no discovery," he said, with a momentary disconcertment.
"I have only left the Hall—I have only told Lord Winter- bourne what he knows ..."
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