2. Verb. (third-person singular of preface) ¹
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Definition of Prefaces
1. preface [v] - See also: preface
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefaces
Literary usage of Prefaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1835)
"Authors are not equally fortunate in these little in troductions ; some can
compose volumes more skilfully than prefaces, and others can finish a preface ..."
2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"In prefaces an affected haughtiness or an affected humility are alike despicable.
There is a deficient dignity in Robertson's ; but the haughtiness is now ..."
3. The Writings of John Bradford .. by John Bradford, John Hooper, Nicholas Ridley, Aubrey Townsend (1848)
"[The two following prefaces accompany a reprint of Bradford's Sermon on Repentance,
... Now published with two prefaces, relating the life of the author, ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"prefaces TO VARIOUS VOLUMES OF POEMS BY WILLIAM ... The prefaces and Essays
printed here form a kind of manifesto of the reaction from the poetical ..."
5. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"The Preface, with the little group of other prefaces and observations which
supplements it,1 ... documents unequalled in interest except by the De prefaces. ..."
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