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Definition of Pluperfect

1. Noun. A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past. "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"

2. Adjective. More than perfect. "He spoke with pluperfect precision"

Definition of Pluperfect

1. a. 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.

Definition of Pluperfect

1. Adjective. More than perfect ¹

2. Adjective. (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another ¹

3. Noun. The pluperfect tense ¹

4. Noun. A verb in this tense ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pluperfect

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pluperfect

plungings plunk plunk down plunk for plunked plunker plunkers plunket plunkier plunkiest

plunking plunks plunky pluot pluots pluperfect (current term) pluperfect tense pluperfects plural plural form

plural marriage plural noun plural pregnancy plurale tantum pluralia pluralia tantum pluralisability pluralisable pluralisation pluralisations

Literary usage of Pluperfect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"In the perfect and pluperfect middle (and passive) of stems ending in a consonant certain euphonic changes (357) occur upon the addition of the personal ..."

2. Syntax of the French Verb by Edward Cooke Armstrong, De La Warr Benjamin Easter (1909)
"pluperfect and Past Anterior. The pluperfect tense places the activity in a ... Even there it is less frequent than the pluperfect, and is hardly found ..."

3. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"The imperfect and pluperfect present greater difficulties. ... The pluperfect takes the place of the imperfect subjunctive, while the latter by the loss of ..."

4. Syntax of Early Latin by Charles Edwin Bennett (1910)
"THE pluperfect INDICATIVE.' It is uncertain whether the pluperfect indicative is a descendant of the Indo-European aorist or is a new formation by ..."

5. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"pluperfect TENSE 477. The pluperfect is used (1) to denote an action or state ... For the Epistolary pluperfect, see § 479. FUTURE PERFECT TENSE 478. ..."

6. Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb by William Watson Goodwin (1881)
"The pluperfect represents an action as already finished at some specified past ... The Perfect Indicative and the pluperfect may be expressed by the Perfect ..."

7. Brief Greek Syntax by Louis Bevier (1903)
"The pluperfect expresses an action as completed in the past. ... Intensive pluperfect. — The pluperfect of some verbs is used as an intensive imperfect, ..."

8. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1896)
"There is much of the same difficulty in distinguishing the pluperfect as the ... The normal pluperfect should show a strong stem in the singular active, ..."

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