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pluperfectly

pluperfectly adverb: in a way that is more than perfect.

Adverb

pluperfectly (comparative more pluperfectly, superlative most pluperfectly)

  1. (rare) In a way that is more than perfect.
    • But in America what good can be said of those who, living upon the fortunes of fathers or grandfathers, amassed in honest trade, — residents of a particular street which is thereby rendered pluperfectly genteel, — with no recommendation but that derived from fashion and idleness, — draw the lines...1866, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, Issue 102, Atlantic Media, Inc., page 390
    • Three years later Castelar opposed federation, and made an enemy of the most sensible party in Spain, because it is the only one founded on cosas de Espana, the most pluperfectly Spanish cosa being provincial independence, and an inborn hatred of centralization.1875, Kate Field, Ten Days in Spain, J. R. Osgood and Company, →ISBN, page 269

Forms of pluperfectly

comparativemore pluperfectly
superlativemost pluperfectly

Origin of pluperfectly

From pluperfect + -ly.

Questions about pluperfectly

What does pluperfectly mean?
Pluperfectly means in a way that is more than perfect.
What part of speech is pluperfectly?
Pluperfectly is an adverb.

Words near pluperfectly in the dictionary

  1. pluperfect
  2. pluperfect tense
  3. pluperfect tenses
  4. pluperfection
  5. pluperfections
  6. pluperfectly
  7. pluperfectness
  8. pluperfects
  9. pluplural
  10. plupluralism
  11. pluplurals

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