pluperfection

English

Etymology

pluperfect +‎ -ion

Noun

pluperfection (usually uncountable, plural pluperfections)

1. The quality or state of being more than perfect or complete.
   • 1920, The Saturday Evening Post‎^[1], volume 193, G. Graham:

     […] the tired mulatto in the white jacket had labored to impart that pluperfection of dull russet radiance […]

   • 1938, Seumas O'Sullivan, The Dublin Magazine, Volume 13‎^[2]:

     The culmination of the Renaissance came about in a bourgeois pluperfection during the seventeenth century.

   • 2013, Dr Thomas AF Kelly, editor, Between System and Poetics: William Desmond and Philosophy after Dialectic‎^[3]:

     Its origination of the conditional and finite is from the agape of its surplus, its pluperfection […]

2. (mathematics) Property of a certain category of graphs.

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