"preteriteness" meaning in All languages combined

See preteriteness on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: preteritness [alternative]
Etymology: From preterite + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|preterite|ness}} preterite + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} preteriteness (uncountable)
  1. The quality or state of being past. Tags: uncountable

Alternative forms

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          "text": "c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere\nA 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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