Definition of "nonplus" []

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

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• "Admiration which is the soul's "nonplus," its doing it knows not what, the winding of it up until it stands still, ready to break -- is all that we can arrive unto in the consideration hereof."
• "Providence itself to a kind of nonplus, to attemper any dispensation of it to an universal acceptance; any more than that glorious fountain of light, the sun, can shine upon all the corners of the earth at once."
• "The Insurance Companies are scum, and maybe private citizens can form competitive nonplus one profits to compete with them."