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discomfit

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1. discomfit - Noun

2. discomfit - Adjective

3. discomfit - Verb

Meaning

To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.

To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.

Discomfited; overthrown.

Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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But there is a chance that the answers will discomfit a great many bureaucratic and doctrinal religions. The idea of religion as a body of belief, immune to criticism, fixed forever by some founder is, I think, a prescription for the long-term decay of the religion, especially lately. Carl Sagan

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