pluperfection en · NOUN
Etymology
From pluperfect + -ion.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) The quality or state of being more than perfect or complete.
[…] the tired mulatto in the white jacket had labored to impart that pluperfection of dull russet radiance […]
1920, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 193, G. Graham:The culmination of the Renaissance came about in a bourgeois pluperfection during the seventeenth century.
1938, Seumas O'Sullivan, The Dublin Magazine, Volume 13:Its origination of the conditional and finite is from the agape of its surplus, its pluperfection […]
2013, Dr Thomas AF Kelly, editor, Between System and Poetics: William Desmond and Philosophy after Dialectic:
- (uncountable, usually) Property of a certain category of graphs.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pluperfections | Number=Plur | lexicographic |