pluterperfect

comparative more pluterperfect · superlative most pluterperfect

1. Alternative form of pluperfect.
   1. rareMore than perfect

      The pluterperfect imperturbability of the department of agriculture.

      1918, James Joyce, Ulysses

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      He married, and this is the biographer's portrait of his pluterperfect spouse

      1908, The Cornhill Magazine, page 399

   2. raregrammarPertaining to action completed before or at a specific time.

      The first pluterperfect will have none of them, but take quand, when, quand j'aurois eu, when I should have had.

      1673, Claude Mauger, Claudius Mauger's French Grammar, page 182

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      Sometimes a writer will establish the set-back by a brief use of the pluterperfect, and then slide undetected, he hopes— into the past again.

      1964, Herbert Best, Writing for children, page 99

      ...and renders all the present, and this present past, a more ancient and pluterperfect past than the Valley of the Kings, sir.

      1975, Sol Yurick, An Island Death, page 31