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副詞

pluperfectly (comparative more pluperfectly, superlative most pluperfectly)

1. (rare) In a way that is more than perfect.
   • 1866, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, Issue 102‎^[1], Atlantic Media, Inc., page 390:

     But in America what good can be said of those who, living upon the fortunes of fathers or grandfathers, amassed in honest trade, — residents of a particular street which is thereby rendered pluperfectly genteel, — with no recommendation but that derived from fashion and idleness, — draw the lines of social demarcation more closely than they are drawn in Europe, intellect and accomplishments being systematically snubbed where the possessors cannot show their family passes?

   • 1875, Kate Field, Ten Days in Spain‎^[2], J. R. Osgood and Company, →ISBN, page 269:

     Three years later Castelar opposed federation, and made an enemy of the most sensible party in Spain, because it is the only one founded on cosas de Espana, the most pluperfectly Spanish cosa being provincial independence, and an inborn hatred of centralization.

   • 1921, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, A Plea for Old Cap Collier‎^[3], George H. Doran Company, →ISBN, page 17:

     Right then and there, on the spot, he got his. And the heroine was always so pluperfectly pure.