pluterperfectとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

pluterperfect (comparative more pluterperfect, superlative most pluterperfect)

1. (nonce word) More than perfect (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   • 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, まれに) Synonym of pluperfect
   • 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.