Preluding

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something serving as a prelude; an introductory work or remark.

    "In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of prelude form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

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"In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn."

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