pluterperfect

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Adjective

pluterperfect (comparative more pluterperfect, superlative most pluterperfect)

(rare) Alternative form of pluperfect
1. More than perfect
  - 1908, The Cornhill Magazine, page 399:
    He married, and this is the biographer's portrait of his pluterperfect spouse
  - 1918, James Joyce, Ulysses:
    The pluterperfect imperturbability of the department of agriculture.
2. (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before or at a specific time.
  - 1673, Claude Mauger, Claudius Mauger's French Grammar, page 182:
    The first pluterperfect will have none of them, but take quand, when, quand j'aurois eu, when I should have had.
  - 1964, Herbert Best, Writing for children, page 99:
    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.
  - 1975, Sol Yurick, An Island Death, page 31:
    ...and renders all the present, and this present past, a more ancient and pluterperfect past than the Valley of the Kings, sir.

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