We have to with a Heart ſearching God, who will find out every unworthy Communicant to his utter Shame and Confuſion ; when God examins ſuch, his Queſtions will be Nonpluſſing and Confounding,[…]
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Nonplussing
Synonyms for "nonplussing" (11 found)
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Nothing can be so nonplussing to a seeker as to have to grope about in a fog for the thing sought.
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These brooms have in common a very nonplussing trait: they may die in winter, for no discernible reason.
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Specifically, it is the idea of the friend, in conjunction with the idea of a conversation, that is, the idea of the ordinary in conjunction with the presumption of benevolence (if friend could be assumed to imply such a connotation, and if conversation could be supposed to have this content), which illuminates what renders these propositions so nonplussing.
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