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Definition of Preterit
1. Noun. A term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense.
Definition of Preterit
1. a. Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
2. n. The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
Definition of Preterit
1. a past tense in grammar [n -S]