PERLEX'ITY, noun Intricacy; entanglement. The jury were embarrassed by the perplexity of the case. 1. Embarrassment of mind; disturbance from doubt, confusion, difficulty or anxiety. Perplexity not suffering them to be idle, they think and do, as it were, in a frenzy.
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