Pluperfect

1. n. The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.
2. a. More than perfect; past perfect; — said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.