_:vb7300808 "1853 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Bront\u00EB], \u201CThe Concert\u201D, in Villette.\u00A0[\u2026], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co.,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 111:"@en . _:vb7300805 . _:vb7300809 "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., \u2192OCLC, pages 69\u201370:"@en . _:vb7300805 "(transitive) To embarrass (someone) greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert."@en . _:vb7300807 "1847 January \u2013 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, \u201CIn which Mr. Osborne Takes Down the Family Bible\u201D, in Vanity Fair\u00A0[\u2026], London: Bradbury and Evans\u00A0[\u2026], published 1848, \u2192OCLC, page 198:"@en . . _:vb7300808 "She is a pretty, silly girl: but are you apprehensive that her titter will discomfit the old lady?"@en . . "1" . _:vb7300810 . _:vb7300808 . _:vb7300806 "Don't worry. Your joke did not really discomfit me."@en . _:vb7300809 . _:vb7300810 "1915, Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in A Far Country, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, \u2192OCLC, section 1, page 46:"@en . _:vb7300806 . _:vb7300807 . . _:vb7300809 "Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better."@en . _:vb7300807 "The Captain, with a half-guilty secret to confess, and with the prospect of a painful and stormy interview before him, entered Mr. Osborne's offices with a most dismal countenance and abashed gait, and, passing through the outer room where Mr. Chopper presided, was greeted by that functionary from his desk with a waggish air which farther discomfited him."@en . _:vb7300810 "After discomfiting her tormentors or wounding and scattering them, she would return to my side.\u00A0\u2026"@en .