nonplus
English
Noun
nonplus (plural nonpluses)
- A state of perplexity or bewilderment.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 46, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- 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.
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Verb
nonplus (third-person singular simple present nonplusses or nonpluses, present participle nonplussing or nonplusing, simple past and past participle nonplussed or nonplused)
Derived terms
Translations
To perplex
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