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NOUN
  1. (rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse

How To Use exordium In A Sentence

  • His exordium is a specimen of the very worst possible taste in composition. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
  • [1795] ⁠ * Your exordium is the worst part of the translation. Letter 138
  • The exordium is a passionate address to Captains all; amongst whom, who can more properly be reckoned than Captain Andrew? Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
  • After this splenitive exordium he proceeded to express the opinion that all the hatred and complaints against the Cardinal had arisen from his opposition to the convocation of the states-general. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
  • He'd explained his dilemma without any exordium of confidentiality. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • At present, since the exordium ought to be the main thing of all, we too will first of all give some precepts to lead to a system of opening a case properly. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
  • Tony Blair's epideictic performance at the Labour Party conference last year won admiration even from his foes, but by and large the digital age is cool to rhetoric and, as the enthronement of the blogger suggests, prizes incoherent impulse over the Ciceronian arts of the exordium and the peroration. First Post Says Blair to Resign on May 9th
  • We might recall the exordium, to which, in thought and to some extent in language, the great concluding doxology corresponds, while the two sections of the first part deal quite appropriately with the impressive words on the certainty of salvation and on God's exercise of providence and wisdom The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • The exordium is ridiculously turgid: If all the members of my body were changed into tongues, and if all my limbs resounded with The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • He'd explained his dilemma without any exordium of confidentiality. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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