Use "discomfit" in a sentence

1. (To discomfit is to crush

2. had penetrated more deeply than ever before into this intricate affair, and that he had originated a leading idea— he could say it without self-flattery—calculated to clear up the whole business, to strengthen him in his official career, to discomfit his enemies, and thereby to be of the greatest benefit to the government

3. Reason teaches us that there must be a First Cause of all Things, an Ens Entium, which we, all unreasoningly, call God, but this First Cause is perfectly indiff’rent to our Fates, for as He is wholly self-sufficient, happy, perfect, and neither loves nor hates, why should He be concern’d with us? And why indeed should He be affected in any Way by our Beseechments? Our Sins neither discomfit Him nor do our Adorations please Him

4. He felt that he had penetrated more deeply than ever before into this intricate affair, and that he had originated a leading idea—he could say it without self-flattery—calculated to clear up the whole business, to strengthen him in his official career, to discomfit his enemies, and thereby to be of the greatest benefit to the government