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preface
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[ verb ] furnish with a preface or introduction
Examples "She always precedes her lectures with a joke" "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution" Used in print (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)A successful businessman recently prefaced his address to a luncheon group with the statement that all economists should be sent to the hospitals for the mentally deranged where they and their theories might rot together . |
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[ noun ] (fine art,writing) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)They , perhaps , gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American_Assembly_of_Columbia_University , because it was non-partisan . Related terms |
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