Noun: non-plus
| Singular | non-plus |
| Plural | non-pluses; non-plusses |
Sample Sentences
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He was not of the Number of thoſe hot-headed, fiery Princes who are guided merely by the Impulſes and Motions of a temerarious Valour which is inſenſible to all Danger, and who precipitate themselves headlong into ſuch intricate and perplexing Non-pluſes, that they are indiſpenſably oblig’d to ſtop ſhort at the Beginning, or at leaſt in the Middle, of their Courſe. [1724, The History of the Revolutions in Spain, volume II, part I (Containing, the Revolutions among the Moors, from 716 to the Taking of the City of Granada in 1492, Which Put an End to the Moorish Empire in Spain. With the Revolutions in Navarre, from 733 to 1521.), London: […] W. Mears, […]; and T. Edlin, […], page 228:]
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Being now much better able to make their queries of the secrets of that mystery, by how much their often failings had put them often to stops and non-plusses in the work […] [1841, William Rhind, A history of the vegetable kingdom, page 237:]
Nouns inflected like non-plus
databus,
stage bus,
nonplus,
motor bus,
tour bus,
front-side bus,
microbus,
attrition bias,
portculles,
flue gas,
non-plus,
motorbus,
arquebus,
frontside bus,
poison gas,
schoolbus,
as,
commuter bus,
off-gas,
overplus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology