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noun a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
adjective more than perfect
originShortening of plusquamperfect, from Latin plusquamperfectum (“more than perfect”), from plus (“more”) + quam (“than”) + perfectum, neuter singular of perfectus (“achieved; finished; perfected”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0