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Pluperfect

noun
1.
A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past.  Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense.





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... died; and had his place at Soissons filled up by an Excellenz of the ordinary height, who had never been pressed. But nothing can rob the Congress of this fact, that it once had Bentenrieder for member; and, so far, is entitled to the pluperfect distinction ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


Words linked to "Pluperfect" :   perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense, pluperfect tense, perfective


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