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might-have-been (iou)



might-have-been noun. M19.
[from might pa. of MAY verb1 + HAVE verb + been pa. pple of BE.]
What might have been; a thing or event which might have occurred; a person who might have been greater or more eminent.
E. H. Gombrich The historian has little use for questions of might-have-been. Listener It was instructive to have the opportunity of hearing this gifted might-have-been.