| 释义 |
nonplussation rare.|nɒnplʌˈseɪʃən|
[f. nonplus v. + -ation.]
The action of nonplussing; the condition of being nonplussed.
1833M. Scott Tom Cringle i. (1842) 34 When the voiture stopped at the village, there seemed to be a nonplusation, to coin a word for the nonce, between my friend and his sisters. 1898E. H. Aitken Tribes on my Frontier (ed. 6) 61 They stared after it with a gape of utter nonplussation. |