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preterpluperfect

adjective

[L. proeter, beyond, plus, more, and perfectus, perfect.]

Literally, beyond more than perfect; an epithet designating the tense of verbs which expresses action or being past prior to another past event or time; better denominated the prior past tense, that is, past prior to another event.