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prefatorial

ADJECTIVE
  1. serving as an introduction or preface

How To Use prefatorial In A Sentence

  • The man who would coolly appropriate some discoveries of others under cloak of a mere prefatorial reference was perhaps an expounder rather than an innovator, and had, it is shrewdly suspected, not much of his own to offer. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
  • Thirdly, and lastly, in this prefatorial say, there is to be considered that inevitable defeator of all printed secrets -- impatience. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Worn out by what was really never life to him," is a prefatorial phrase I recall. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
  • Up to 1940, when his writings held many gifts of my help, he found satisfaction in prefatorial thanks-paying. Taking His Measure
  • As a celebrated milestone in the development of British Romanticism, Wordsworth's prefatorial success lay in his proposal of a new artistic mechanism. Haunted Britain in the 1970s
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