pluterperfect

English

Adjective

pluterperfect (comparative more pluterperfect, superlative most pluterperfect)

1. (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.