Meaning of non-plus | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of nonplus.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“He was not of the Number⟳ of thoſe hot-headed, fiery Princes who are guided merely by the Impulſes and Motions of a temerarious Valour which is inſenſible to all Danger, and who precipitate themselves headlong into ſuch intricate and perplexing Non-pluſes, that they are indiſpenſably oblig’d to ſtop ſhort at the Beginning, or at leaſt in the Middle, of their Courſe.”

“Being now much better able to make⟳ their queries of the secrets of that mystery, by how much their often failings had put⟳ them often to stops and non-plusses in the work⟳ […]”

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