What's the difference between discomfiture and discomposure?
Discomfiture
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Kaminski was nominated by the new Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR) created by David Cameron, I decided to take the issue head on, even at the discomfiture of my own party.
(2) Russia's discomfiture stems in part from the blow such defections would deliver to its own pet Customs Union project, part of Putin's grandiose plan for a Eurasian union.
(3) Federalism in India as we've seen it since the late 80s – the discomfiture with an overarching centre; coalitions fuelled by caste, sectarianism and other drives – germinated in Punjab in the form of provincial Sikh coalitions, a development Gandhi felt compelled to unravel in the interests, no doubt, of a strong, secular nation state and herself.
(4) But we also saw, when his "tribes" eventually confronted the tapestries in which they featured, and professed pleasure in them, that there was discomfiture too, as Perry uncovered their very personal unfulfilled dreams.
(5) He was then the first beneficiary of Anthony Wedgwood Benn's successful constitutional campaign to disclaim his own peerage, somewhat to the discomfiture of Benn and other Labour MPs.
(6) In 1980, a British television documentary, Death of a Princess, based on the true story of Princess Misha’al and her lover, who were publicly executed for adultery, led the Saudis to expel Britain’s ambassador and impose sanctions, much to the London establishment’s discomfiture.
(7) If there was a symbol of the Liberal Democrats' discomfiture as their vote plummeted across Scotland and the rest of the UK, it came in the shape of a penguin.
Discomposure
Definition:
(n.) The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.