Discomfiture

 Noticed today in Edmund Wilson's The Thirties, edited by Leon Edel, chapter "Washington, 1934":

[My infected nose became worse, and I had to go to the hospital. There I added to my discomfiture by reading Hegel's Philosophy of History.]

Given the quantity of Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky that Wilson had read or was shortly to read, a bit of Hegel doesn't sound that bad.