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pluperfect

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Adjective, Noun
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plu=per=fect

CIDE DICTIONARY

pluperfecta. [L. plus more + perfectus perfect; cf. F. plus-que-parfait, L. plusquamperfectum.].
     More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pluperfect, adj. & n. Gram.
--adj. (of a tense) denoting an action completed prior to some past point of time specified or implied, formed in English by had and the past participle, as: he had gone by then.
--n. the pluperfect tense.

Etymology
mod.L plusperfectum f. L plus quam perfectum more than perfect

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