Definition of Preteritness. Meaning of Preteritness. Synonyms of Preteritness

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Definition of Preteritness

Preteritness
Preteritness Pret"er*it*ness, n. The quality or state of being past. --Bentley. Lowell.

Meaning of Preteritness from wikipedia

- The preterite or preterit (/ˈprɛtərɪt/ PRET-ər-it; abbreviated PRET or PRT) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place...
- Preterism is a Christian eschatological view or belief that interprets some (partial preterism) or all (full preterism) prophecies of the Bible as events...
- with Balto-Slavic languages, on the other hand (especially present and preterit formations), might be due to later contacts. The Indo-Hittite hypothesis...
- Judeo-Hamadani has eight tenses, present, imperfect, subjunctive, imperative, preterit, present perfect, past perfect, and progressive. Gholami, Saloumeh (January...
- preterite or jussive short form: compare yiŝtahaweh (imperfective), yiŝtáhû (preterit or jussive short form) = "do obeisance". Abijah: "my father is YHWH" Adonijah:...
- optative moods. If the reconstructions are correct, we can find, in the preterital system of Messapic, reflections of a formation in *-s- (which in other...
- imperfect and ****ure subjunctives are formed from the preterit stem, so that with pud- the stem of the preterit of poder, as in yo pude 'I was able', the imperfect...
- object as well as for several different modes (including the dubitative and preterit) and tenses. Although it does contain a few loans from English (e.g. gaapii...
- opposed to the past or in contrast with expectation. Preterit: piapah, 'he did formerly come' The preterit, typically ending in -epa or -pa, puts an emphasis...
- **(English gerund and present participle have merged, and often the past participle with the preterit.) ***(Actually, not the past participle but the supine.)...