Word Meanings - PRETERITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• PRETERIT
  Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past. 2. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by. Things and persons as thoroughly preterite as Romulus or Numa. Lowell.
• PRETERITIVE
  Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.
• PRETERITION
  A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, "I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just." Called also paraleipsis. (more info) 1. The act of passing, or going past; the state of being
• PRETERITENESS
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• PRETERITNESS
  The quality or state of being past. Bentley. Lowell.
• PRETERITE
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