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preteriteness

noun

Etymology

From preterite + -ness.

  1. derived from praeteritum
  2. derived from preterit
  3. inherited from preterit
  4. suffixed as preteriteness — “preterite + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being past.

    • c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere A valley in the moon could scarce have been lonelier , could scarce have suggested more strongly the feeling of preteriteness and extinction

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA