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exordium

noun as in foreword

noun as in preface

noun as in prelude

noun as in prologue

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Example Sentences

From the exordium, forwards, I followed his words closely, and lost none of his arguments.

This exordium is followed by a new invitation to come to Paris with all speed to talk over everything.

She replied through the Count of Staremberg, her minister for German affairs, that such an exordium deserved no answer at all.

A single allusion to Greece, as the mistress of the world in letters and arts, found an appropriate place in the exordium.

That Lucretian Exordium he must have written in one of his happiest veins—under the sting of the poetical œstrum.

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On this page you'll find 250 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exordium, such as: preamble, preface, prologue, overture, preliminary, and prelude.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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