"præface" meaning in English

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        {
          "text": "1607, Edward Topsell, Historie of Four-Footed Beastes; quoted in:"
        },
        {
          "text": "1890, John Ashton, Curious Creatures in Zoology: with 130 Illustrations Throughout the Text, “The Rhinoceros” (2008 reprint; Ulwencreutz Media, Lulu.com; →ISBN\nBut for my part, which write the English story, I acknowledge that no man must looke for that at my hands, which I have not received from some other: for I would bee unwilling to write anything untrue, or uncertaine out of mine owne invention; and truth on every part is so deare unto mee, that I will not lie to bring any man in love and admiration with God and his works, for God needeth not the lies of men: To conlude, therefore, this Præface, as the beast is strange, and never seene in our countrey, so my eyesight cannot adde anything to the description; therefore harken unto that which I have observed out of other writers."
        }
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        "Obsolete spelling of preface."
      ],
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  "word": "præface"
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      "form": "præfaces",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "præfacing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "præfaced",
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        "participle",
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    },
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        "past"
      ]
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        "Obsolete spelling of preface."
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    "English terms spelled with Æ",
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    "Pages with entries"
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        {
          "text": "1607, Edward Topsell, Historie of Four-Footed Beastes; quoted in:"
        },
        {
          "text": "1890, John Ashton, Curious Creatures in Zoology: with 130 Illustrations Throughout the Text, “The Rhinoceros” (2008 reprint; Ulwencreutz Media, Lulu.com; →ISBN\nBut for my part, which write the English story, I acknowledge that no man must looke for that at my hands, which I have not received from some other: for I would bee unwilling to write anything untrue, or uncertaine out of mine owne invention; and truth on every part is so deare unto mee, that I will not lie to bring any man in love and admiration with God and his works, for God needeth not the lies of men: To conlude, therefore, this Præface, as the beast is strange, and never seene in our countrey, so my eyesight cannot adde anything to the description; therefore harken unto that which I have observed out of other writers."
        }
      ],
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        "Obsolete spelling of preface."
      ],
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    "Pages with entries"
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