ne plus ultra
the highest point; acme.
the most intense degree of a quality or state.
Origin of ne plus ultra
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How to use ne plus ultra in a sentence
That particular shop, sold to Bendel a decade ago or so before, had been the ne plus ultra of American bookstores.
The Bookstore That Bewitched Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and Greta Garbo | Felice Picano | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMany of us occupy a world in which having your own hour on a cable channel is an all-consuming goal and the ne plus ultra.
Dylan Ratigan Unplugged: Ex-MSNBC Host Turns Hydroponic Entrepreneur | Daniel Gross | March 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHaving a bride end the show suggested that the wedding gown was the ne plus ultra.
In the pantheon of self-destructive, shambolic, rock-star dandies, Johnny Thunders is the ne plus ultra.
Lamb fills his case, and lights this the ne plus ultra of a soothing weed.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James Wills
On his return he again doubled cape Good Hope, which had long been regarded as the ne plus ultra of navigation.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThis is but a bare outline of a most excellently developed story, in which realism has been carried to a ne plus ultra.
Villars vaingloriously styled his lines "Marlborough's ne plus ultra," a subject on which he was abundantly jocular.
He thinks the bar-mess the most fashionable assemblage in Europe, and the jokes of "grand day" the ne plus ultra of wit.
The Fitz-Boodle Papers | William Makepeace Thackeray
British Dictionary definitions for ne plus ultra
/ Latin (ˈneɪ ˈplʊs ˈʊltrɑː) /
the extreme or perfect point or state
Origin of ne plus ultra
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