Nonplus

Definitions

A state of bewilderment or perplexity.

obsolete

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Examples

“[A]ltering Vaudemont, to Vallemontanus, and metamorphoſing them, by ſuting them to the Græcian or Latin tongue, we know⟳ not what to make⟳ of them, and are often at a non-plus.”

“Being now made much abler to make⟳ their queries, of the ſecrets of that myſtery, by how much their often failings, had put⟳ them to often ſtops and nonpluſſes in the work⟳.”

“And if both of them are at a perfect Non-plus, and Baffle to all Humane Underſtanding; is it poſſible for Natural Reaſon to comprehend what the Heart of Man cannot conceive?”

“I believe⟳ they'd ſoon be put⟳ to a non-plus—You'd be quite too much for them, I'm ſure.”

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