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Noun
past perfect
past perfect tense
pluperfect
pluperfect tense
Definition: a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"
Definition: Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb..