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单词 prefatory
释义

prefatory

/ˈprɛfət(ə)ri /
adjective
Serving as an introduction; introductory: in his prefatory remarks the author claims that ......
  • It's a book that's always beginning, where everything is introductory, liminal, prefatory.
  • As Nelson writes in a prefatory note, ‘A requiem, by definition, is sad; the person it honors has died.’
  • After a prefatory reference to the ‘inherent dignity’ of all human beings, the Universal Declaration simply declares certain values to be human rights.

Synonyms

introductory, preliminary, opening, initial, preparatory, explanatory, lead-in, initiatory, precursory, prior, antecedent
rare prefatorial, precursive, prodromal, prodromic, preambular, preambulatory, preludial, prelusive, prelusory, exordial, proemial, prolegomenal
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