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- verb Alternative spelling of
nonplus . - noun Alternative spelling of
nonplus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But an extra place is the non-plus ultra, but not yet affordable, since I raeched only the short story level in writing so far but the novel level is dawning slowly.
a room with a view 2006
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Breton wine, if I do not blank and gravel you in this matter, and put you to a non-plus?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Breton wine, if I do not blank and gravel you in this matter, and put you to a non-plus?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In this hopeless condition he goes to a Bawd, who had several times assisted him in his Love Intreagues, and tells her at what a non-plus he was how to accomplish his Design: The Bawd at first persuades him off of her, and promises to help him to one that shall not only equal but surpass her: But all that was in vain, for nothing wou'd Satify but, only this very
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Stout, one of Bishop Stewart's attorneys, J.W. Wills being another, sought to non-plus the charges and specifications on the grounds that three ministers, who waited on Bishop Stewart and had been interested in the case, were now prosecutors.
The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status Charles Henry 1925
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French or Latin for not, sign of negation; 2. privation; as, 1. non-juring, not swearing; non-existence, want of existence; non-age; 2. non-plus, deprived of the power of saying more; non-suit.
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You may now commonly see a young lady, or a petit maître non-plus a divine or an old-fashioned gentleman, who bath read many a Greek and
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Dick was now at a non-plus! he knew that his father would never give his consent to a match destitute alike of rank and fortune.
Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829
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Even before this time, the contradiction between tradition, and the actual and possible, had appeared to me very striking; and I had often put my private tutors to a non-plus with the sun which stood still on Gibeon, and the moon in the vale of Ajalon, to say nothing of other improbabilities and incongruities.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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Indeed, this is a situation which is calculated to non-plus the electorate generally, and not merely little green men who landed here in flying saucers.
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