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/pˌərtərbˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Perturbation n.

The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.

(Astron.) A disturbance in the regular elliptic or other motion of a heavenly body, produced by some force additional to that which causes its regular motion; as, the perturbations of the planets are caused by their attraction on each other.

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"Perturbation" Quotes from Famous Books

... without answering Kezia, and kept pacing up and down the garden in a state of perturbation very unusual ...

— Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs - A Tale of Land and Sea • William H. G. Kingston

... brought to the senate, then assembled in the Hotel de Ville. That body was thrown into a state of great perturbation. In losing the Prince of Orange, they seemed to have lost their own brains, and the first measure which they took was to despatch a messenger to implore his return. In the mean time, it was necessary that they should do something for themselves. It was evident that a storm was brewing. ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... the power of genius and the indolence of will? This kind of melancholy is fatal to the practice of any virtue, and seems like a sacrifice of heart on the altar of pride. Was it a melancholy like Werther's, whose senses, stimulated by passion, of which society opposed the development, carried perturbation also into the moral regions? Was it the deep mysterious ailment of Hamlet, at once both meek and full of logic? or the sickness of that "masculine breast with feeble arms;" "of that philosopher who only ...

— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli

... that time the Foreign Secretary and generally a sensible statesman, and to have been done in spite of misgivings expressed by the Emperor about its danger. The circumstances of the moment were such that one can not but feel a certain sympathy with the German perturbation at the time. The march of the French Army to Fez had come on them suddenly, and it at least suggested a development of French claims going beyond what Germany had agreed to at the Algeciras Conference nearly six years previously. Those who wish to inform themselves about the commotion the expedition ...

— Before the War • Viscount Richard Burton Haldane

... the one on which this conversation was held, Farmer Giles came into the kitchen in great perturbation ...

— Odd • Amy Le Feuvre

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