Dictionary entry

Pluperfect

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Plu″per′fect (?), a. [L. plus more + perfectus perfect; cf. F. plus-que-parfait, L. plusquamperfectum.] More than perfect; past perfect; — said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event. — n. The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.