See preamble in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "But these things being beside my main design, I will desist from preambling and come to the materials I have collected towards a history of the Baptists in this province.",
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},
{
"ref": "1982, Frank Davey, Pomestaysyun, page 20:",
"text": "Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 473:",
"text": "So, what say we skip the preambling. Is it women? Money? Writer's block?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹiːˌambəl/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹiˌæmbəl/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "præamble"
}
],
"word": "preamble"
}
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