nonplus

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He was at a nonplus, and just about to return home and laugh at himself and the baroness for this wild-goose chase, when he fell in with a face he knew, one Mivart, a surgeon, a young man of some talent, who had made his acquaintance in Paris.

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  1. transitive verb To put at a loss as to what to think, say, or do; bewilder.
  2. noun A state of perplexity, confusion, or bewilderment.

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  • Cassandra had sent her to point-nonplus in less than a minute. —  Karen Harbaugh - [Cupid -1] - Cupid's Mistake
  • They were put to a nonplus, and summoned the Devil to their relief. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
  • Come--obey my orders The renegade was a little at a nonplus, as he never had undergone the operation which he had described. —  The Pacha of Many Tales
  • "His first question was concerning God--whether God, that created all things, could admit of being any form of Himself Prophets are never at a nonplus, and never surprised by a question; the more transcendental the problem, the more need for the prophetic gift to solve it. —  The Coming of the Friars
  • He was at a nonplus, and just about to return home and laugh at himself and the baroness for this wild-goose chase, when he fell in with a face he knew, one Mivart, a surgeon, a young man of some talent, who had made his acquaintance in Paris. —  White Lies
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From Latin nōn plūs, no more : nōn, not; see non- + plūs, more; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin non plus, not more: non, not; plus, more: see nonand plus.
  2. from nonplus, n.
 

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