different between pluperfection vs pluperfect

English

Noun

pluperfection (usually uncountable, plural pluperfections)

1. The quality or state of being more than perfect or complete.
   • 1920, G. Graham, The Saturday Evening Post, Volume 193

     […] the tired mulatto in the white jacket had labored to impart that pluperfection of dull russet radiance […]

   • 1938, Seumas O'Sullivan, The Dublin Magazine, Volume 13

     The culmination of the Renaissance came about in a bourgeois pluperfection during the seventeenth century.

   • 2013, edited by Dr Thomas AF Kelly, Between System and Poetics: William Desmond and Philosophy after Dialectic

     Its origination of the conditional and finite is from the agape of its surplus, its pluperfection […]

2. (mathematics) Property of a certain category of graphs.

Related terms

• pluperfect

English

Etymology

Shortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plu??p??(?)f?kt/

Adjective

pluperfect (not comparable)

1. More than perfect.
2. (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another.
3. (mathematics) Relating to a certain type of graph, complying with the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.
4. (mathematics) Synonym of multiperfect
5. (informal) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.

   What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!

Usage notes

• In many languages this is implemented using a participle and an auxiliary verb in a past tense.

Related terms

• pluperfection

Noun

pluperfect (plural pluperfects)

1. The pluperfect tense.
2. A verb in this tense.

Synonyms

• plusquamperfect, preterpluperfect

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