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Definition of Preterites
1. preterite [n] - See also: preterite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preterites
Literary usage of Preterites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mother Tongue by Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner (1901)
"WEAK Preterites IN -ED OR -D. 390. Most weak verbs form their Preterite in -ed.
... Make sentences containing the preterites of the following weak verbs:— ..."
2. Observations on the Language of Chaucer's Troilus by George Lyman Kittredge (1891)
"[Inf. wepe, -en, cf. 5591, 6445, 7598 f, etc.] 104. A few Romance verbs show
syncopated preterites in ..."
3. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... ENGLISH Preterites. A LIVING language is like a living man. It has its tender
infancy ; its passionate youth; its careful maturity; its gradual, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... LOST SCOTTISH AND ENGLISH Preterites. A LIVING language is like a living man.
It has its tender infancy ; its passionate youth ; its careful maturity; ..."
5. The Philological Museum by Julius Charles Hare (1833)
"On English Preterites and Genitives. IN the first volume of this Museum, pp. ...
of some remarks on the form of certain English preterites and participles, ..."
6. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THE SO-CALLED STRONG Preterites. § 412. THE previous
chapters have been, more or less, general; the question with which they dealt ..."
7. Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor (1883)
"open, on a wide field, in full sunshine. Cowley always writes the preterites and
participles ... preterites ..."
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