Mystery vs Perplex - What's the difference?
mystery | perplex |
Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
*{{quote-book, year=1927, author=
, chapter=4, title= Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=5 (label) A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.
A secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated.
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To cause to feel baffled; to .
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
As a noun mystery
is something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.As a verb perplex is
to cause to feel baffled; to puzzle.As an adjective perplex is
intricate; difficult.mystery
English
Noun
(mysteries)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
- If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind.
citation, passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery .}}
Synonyms
* roun (obsolete)Derived terms
* mysterious * mystery playReferences
* Mysteries: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htmperplex
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Verb
(es)- What was thought obscure, perplexed , and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
- (Glanvill)
