perplexly

English

Etymology

From perplex +‎ -ly.

Adverb

perplexly (comparative more perplexly, superlative most perplexly)

1. (obsolete) perplexedly
   • 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:

     This is the ſumme of what paſs'd in three years against the Danes, returning out of France, ſet down ſo perplexly by the saxon Annaliſt , ill - guiſted with utterance

References

• “perplexly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.