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pluperfect
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pluperfect has 1 sense
- pluperfect(n = noun.linkdef) past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect" is a kind of perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense
Adjective pluperfect has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
pluperfect, a. [L. plus more + perfectus perfect; cf. F. plus-que-parfait, L. plusquamperfectum.].
More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pluperfect, adj. & n. Gram.
--adj. (of a tense) denoting an action completed prior to some past point of time specified or implied, formed in English by had and the past participle, as: he had gone by then.
--n. the pluperfect tense.
--adj. (of a tense) denoting an action completed prior to some past point of time specified or implied, formed in English by had and the past participle, as: he had gone by then.
--n. the pluperfect tense.
Etymology
mod.L plusperfectum f. L plus quam perfectum more than perfect
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