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Preface meaning
A beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book, typically serving to contextualize or explain the writing of the book and sometimes to acknowledge others' contributions; especially, such a discussion written by the work's own author. | An introduction, or series of preliminary remarks. | A variable prayer forming the prelude or introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer or canon of the Mass, following the Sursum corda dialogue and leading into the Sanctus.
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Bede, "Preface", Historia Ecclesiastica, p. 41. The preface mentions that Ceolwulf received an earlier draft of the book; presumably Ceolwulf knew enough Latin to understand it, and he may even have been able to read it.
Preface Consequent to the harsh criticism of the magazine edition of the novel, the textual revisions to The Picture of Dorian Gray included a preface in which Wilde addressed the criticisms and defended the reputation of his novel.
And you can preface your requests for one-on-one networking discussions by wishing people happy holidays and expressing empathy for a busy season.
I leave off the preface “lifestyle”, because perhaps they don’t need to know that I, a serious woman, a mother of two, a lover of IRON AGE HISTORY for God’s sake, might be paid to “bed rot”.
I'll preface myself by saying I am generally unfamiliar with such things; however, wasn't the last time the US or any NATO country had a real tank battle was in Desert Storm?
In the preface of the new book by vaccine expert and pro-science crusader Peter Hotez, there are several acknowledgments of a kind that may never have appeared before in a book like it.
It is the culmination of a master animator coming into the fullness of his creative faculties and the spiritual preface to the film that would later go on to become his magnum opus.
She has also written the preface for a 50th-anniversary edition of A Treasury of Great Recipes, a cookbook written by Vincent Price and his wife Mary.
Michele and Coccia thought of a way “to keep the two voices distinct, employing italics for that of Emanuele, weaving the two on the page as in the Talmud or Bible manuscripts,” according to a joint preface note.
They’re one minute each and I’m going to preface what we found in these reports.
This will lay the firm foundation that will allow the global Church to meet the specific challenges it faces today, the preface concludes.
To support his accusations of Biden blurring political lines Cruz points out the White House's guidelines over displaying the laws, including the infrastructure preface with Biden getting credit.
When Hippler published his book Contemplations on Filmmaking in 1942, Jannings wrote the preface.
You can also preface a narrative by saying, “I’m not looking for answers here; I just feel the need to vent about some things that are going on.
As seems to be the preface to so many conversations the past month, everything discussed remains dynamic and in flux.
Bruce returned the favor by writing the preface to the 2013 edition of Greg’s SO WRONG FOR SO LONG: How the Press, the Pundits–and the President–Failed on Iraq.
Gorra’s book, as he writes in his preface, is “an act of citizenship,” timely and essential as we confront, once again, the question of who is a citizen and who among us should enjoy its privileges.
I have a small, walk-on part in Neil’s intellectual revolution, as he explained – with characteristic generosity- in the preface to The Origins of Scottish Nationhood.
I'm going to preface this next statement by saying I do in fact love Taysom Hill as a football player and maybe even a person, I'm sure he's a cool dude but he's a jack of all trades and master of none.
In the preface, Venkatrau refers to the serialised novel and says that he had to stop the serialisation midway, because it threatened to grow too large for a newspaper story.