preteriteness
English
Etymology
preterite + -ness
Noun
preteriteness (uncountable)
- Alternative form of preteritness
- 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
- c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere
References
- preteriteness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913