preface
/ˈpɹɛfəs/ verb C2- To introduce or make a comment before (the main point); to premise. · Let me preface this by saying that I don't know him that well.
- To give a preface to. · to preface a book
He/she/it prefaces · Past prefaced · Past participle prefaced · -ing form prefacing
Verb forms
- Base form
- preface
- He/she/it
- prefaces
- Past
- prefaced
- Past participle
- prefaced
- -ing form
- prefacing
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That was our first drama at Hurlstone; but a second one came to drive it from our minds, and it was prefaced by the disgrace and dismissal of butler Brunton.
Her cousin prefaced his speech with a solemn bow, and though she could not hear a word of it, she felt as if hearing it all, and saw in the motion of his lips the words “apology,” “Hunsford,” and “Lady Catherine de Bourgh.” It vexed her to see him expose himself to such a man.
de Saint-Méran is dead,” answered the old marchioness, without preface and without expression; she appeared to be stupefied.
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