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Definition of Pluperfects
1. pluperfect [n] - See also: pluperfect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pluperfects
Literary usage of Pluperfects
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)
"(/it-verbs); all aorists passive (except in the subjunctive); all perfects and
pluperfects middle (passive); those second aorists in which the tense-stem ..."
2. A Greek Grammar by William Watson Goodwin (1896)
"Second Perfects and pluperfects of the fit-Form. The following verbs have forms
of this class in Attic Greek, most of them even in prose ..."
3. A Greek Grammar by William Watson Goodwin (1893)
"... 1) or in ¡M¡V from consonant stems (800, 2), are inflected like the pluperfect
middle (698). 804. III. Second Perfects and pluperfects of the ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"A table nf 85 even pluperfects (P) is presented, of whicli 06 (computed by the
... One or more pluperfects have been found for every value of q up to 39, ..."
5. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1891)
"I have noted twelve pluperfects with syllabic augment (including ... And I have
said nothing of all those pluperfects which are never read with the augment ..."
6. A Greek Grammar for Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1920)
"These tenses are: all aorists passive; all perfects and pluperfects middle ...
a few second perfects and pluperfects active; and those second aorists active ..."
7. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"(/it-verbs); all aorists passive (except in the subjunctive); all perfects and
pluperfects middle (passive); those second aorists in which the tense-stem ..."
8. A Greek Grammar by William Watson Goodwin (1896)
"Second Perfects and pluperfects of the fit-Form. The following verbs have forms
of this class in Attic Greek, most of them even in prose ..."
9. A Greek Grammar by William Watson Goodwin (1893)
"... 1) or in ¡M¡V from consonant stems (800, 2), are inflected like the pluperfect
middle (698). 804. III. Second Perfects and pluperfects of the ..."
10. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"A table nf 85 even pluperfects (P) is presented, of whicli 06 (computed by the
... One or more pluperfects have been found for every value of q up to 39, ..."
11. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1891)
"I have noted twelve pluperfects with syllabic augment (including ... And I have
said nothing of all those pluperfects which are never read with the augment ..."
12. A Greek Grammar for Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1920)
"These tenses are: all aorists passive; all perfects and pluperfects middle ...
a few second perfects and pluperfects active; and those second aorists active ..."
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