preteritness
English
Alternative forms
- preteriteness
Etymology
preterit + -ness
Noun
preteritness (uncountable)
- The quality or state of being past.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for preteritness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- interpretess