Definition of "preterit" []

• Alternative form of preterite. (noun)

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• "As Nadelmann notes, it is now acceptable to admit pot smoking as preterit (thanks, Barack), a big step forward from the awkward half-admissions of the 1990s."
• "I'm french and I wouldn't know for sure, but why couldn't it be a preterit, as David above implied ?"
• "This occurs especially in the present and preterit, i.e."