preteriteness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
- “preteriteness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.