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Webster 1828 Edition

Preluding

PRELU'DING

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ppr.

Playing an introductory air; preceding.

Definition 2024

preluding

preluding

English

Verb

preluding

present participle of prelude

Noun

preluding ‎(plural preludings)

Something serving as a prelude; an introductory work or remark.
- Edgar Allan Poe
  In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.