What does non-plus mean?
Non-plus means Alternative spelling of nonplus..
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Alternative spelling of nonplus..
A fourth exclusive privilege of Universalists is, the possession of all the common sense, learning and piety in Christendom. Their effrontery abashes and non-pluses meeker men, who know not what to say to such dashing impudence.
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.
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 […]
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Non-plus means Alternative spelling of nonplus..
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A fourth exclusive privilege of Universalists is, the possession of all the common sense, learning and piety in Christendom. Their effrontery abashes and non-pluses meeker men, who know not what to say to such dashing impudence.
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