discomfit
verb (used with object)
to confuse and deject; disconcert.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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Village Wooing succeeded to a degree that will discomfit the author if he ever hears about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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