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discomfiture |
(n): anxious embarrassment
(n): the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
(n): a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
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discomfit used to used as "to be defeated"
c.1225, from O.Fr. desconfit, pp. of desconfire "to defeat, destroy," from des- "not" + confire "make, prepare, accomplish." Weaker sense of "disconcert" is first recorded 1530 in Eng., probably by confusion with discomfort (q.v.).