Preteriteness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Preteriteness is a noun meaning The quality or state of being past.
Meaning
The quality or state of being past.
Example Sentences
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
Word Forms
- preteritness
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include preteritness, unexactness, prepollency, pastness, preternaturality, preternaturalness.
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