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ˈpreteriteness
Also præ-, preteritness.
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The state or condition of being preterite or past; pastness.
1665J. Sergeant Sure Footing 205 The preteritness of the Thing has so fixt its Existence to its proper time, that 'tis not now obnoxious to variation. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 23 We cannot conceive a Praeteritness (if I may say so) still backwards in infinitum, that never was present. 1854Lowell Jrnl. Italy Prose Wks. 1890 I. 140 The feeling of preteriteness and extinction. 1866― Lessing ibid. II. 219 Klopstock..is rather remembered for what he was than what he is—an immortality of preteriteness. |