proem

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After a moment or two, I said, “Well, some died in the war, and, if you read the proem carefully, you’ll recall that others died ‘through their own recklessness.’

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017

With this bold proem, George R. Barnes, director of BBC's "Third Program,"*launched one of the boldest ventures in the history of broadcasting.

From Time Magazine Archive

I sent you the proem, which you published as a preface to the "Froissart Ballads."

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various

The sonnet prefixed as a proem to the whole book is generally attributed to Giordano Bruno, in whose Dialogue on the Eroici Furori it occurs.

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington

I will not trespass on your time by any proem.

From Romola by Eliot, George