Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, past-perfect; perfect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Gram.) Old name of the tense also called
preterit .
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- noun grammar, archaic
preterite
Etymologies
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Examples
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And I was once purposed for the benefite of all learners to have done it, and to have shewed why through my Dictionarie I have in all verbs of the first conjugation onely set downe the Infinitive moode, except it be of fower irregular verbes, and wherefore in all of the seconde and thirde conjugations I have noted besides the Infinitive moode, the first person singular of the present-tence of the Indicative moode, the first person singular of the first preterperfect-tence of the Indicative, and the participle.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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At the beginning of the first Psalm the Bishop of Rochester turns "the preterperfect tense into the present tense; because the sense is too harsh in the preterperfect tense," and the Bishop of Ely advises "the translation of the verbs in the Psalms to be used uniformly in one tense." [
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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