Preteriteness

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of preteritness. alt-of, alternative, uncountable

    "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"

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"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"

Etymology

From preterite + -ness.

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