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Webster 1913 Edition
Nonplus
Non′plus
,Noun.
A state or condition which baffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficulty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.
Both of them are a perfect
nonplus
and baffle to all human understanding. South.
Non′plusˊ
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Nonplused
or Nonplussed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Nonplusing
or Nonplussing
.] To puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment.
He has been
nonplused
by Mr. Dry’s desiring him to tell what it was that he endeavored to prove. Spectator.
Webster 1828 Edition
Nonplus
NON'PLUS
,Noun.
NON'PLUS
,Verb.
T.
Your situation has nonplussed me.
Definition 2024
nonplus
nonplus
English
Noun
nonplus (plural nonpluses)
- A state of perplexity or bewilderment.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.46:
- altering 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.
- South
- Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.46:
Verb
nonplus (third-person singular simple present nonplusses, present participle nonplussing, simple past and past participle nonplussed)
Derived terms
Translations
To perplex
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