Wondering how to use Prefatory in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as introductory or preceding.
Prefatory in a sentence
Prefatory meaning
Serving as a preface or prelude; introductory, preliminary.
Synonyms of Prefatory
Using Prefatory
- The main meaning on this page is: Serving as a preface or prelude; introductory, preliminary.
- Useful related words include: introductory, prefatorial, preceding.
- In the example corpus, prefatory often appears in combinations such as: prefatory note, the prefatory, prefatory material.
Context around Prefatory
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Prefatory
- In this selection, "prefatory" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, accompanies, citation, elaborate, note, material and clause stand out and add context to how "prefatory" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include by a prefatory note of and by elaborate prefatory matter including. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "prefatory" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with prefatory
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One more prefatory note. (4 words)
Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by C. Kegan Paul. (10 words)
Scholars advanced three competing theoretical models for how the prefatory clause should be interpreted. (14 words)
It was a collection of 34 Latin motets dedicated to the Queen herself, accompanied by elaborate prefatory matter including poems in Latin elegiacs by the schoolmaster Richard Mulcaster and the young courtier Ferdinand Heybourne (aka Richardson). (36 words)
It does not, however, provide any of the other prefatory material often found in medieval Bible manuscripts, such as chapter headings, some of which are included in the large editions of Oxford and Rome. (34 words)
It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. citation Prefatory Poets have explained that free verse is not totally free; 'its only freedom is from the tyrant demands of the metered line'. (34 words)
Example sentences (13)
One more prefatory note.
A reference in the prefatory material to the Cantiones sacrae published by Byrd and Thomas Tallis in 1575 tends to confirm that Byrd was a pupil of Tallis in the Chapel Royal.
At this point he conceived that the prefatory opera, Der junge Siegfried, could act as a comic foil to the tragedy of Siegfrieds Tod.
In these and subsequent collections, a terse "main case" of a kōan often accompanies prefatory remarks, poems, proverbs and other phrases, and further commentary about prior emendations.
It does not, however, provide any of the other prefatory material often found in medieval Bible manuscripts, such as chapter headings, some of which are included in the large editions of Oxford and Rome.
It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. citation Prefatory Poets have explained that free verse is not totally free; 'its only freedom is from the tyrant demands of the metered line'.
It was a collection of 34 Latin motets dedicated to the Queen herself, accompanied by elaborate prefatory matter including poems in Latin elegiacs by the schoolmaster Richard Mulcaster and the young courtier Ferdinand Heybourne (aka Richardson).
It was his intention, had he lived to see the completion of the translation, to introduce it to the English reading public by a prefatory note of appreciation.
It was published when Pound had just begun his move toward Imagism ; his first use of the word Imagiste appears in his prefatory note to the volume.
Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by C. Kegan Paul.
Scholars advanced three competing theoretical models for how the prefatory clause should be interpreted.
Shapiro, p. 148. Although the Second Amendment is the only Constitutional amendment with a prefatory clause, such linguistic constructions were widely used elsewhere in the late eighteenth century.
The original printing contained two prefatory texts; the first was a formal Epistle Dedicatory to "the most high and mighty Prince" King James.
Common combinations with prefatory
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: