(n.) Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
(n.) The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.
(v. t.) To introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to preface a book discourse.
(v. i.) To make a preface.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the book’s preface , Hager explains how Key was desperate to continue his success by constructing a charming public persona while pursuing “ more personal attacks and negative politics than any in living memory.” I asked Hager to tell me more: It is about political PR and particularly what the US Republican party strategists have called a two-track approach.
(2) • This article was amended on 15 June 2015 to clarify that a letter Badawi dictated from prison was not published first by Der Spiegel, but is the preface to a book of his writings, 1,000 Lashes.
(3) The report's preface says the difficulties encountered - "the politicisation of the decision making, the managerial weakness, the ethical lapses" - were "symptomatic of systematic problems in the UN administration".
(4) In a joint statement prefacing the Queen's speech , they said: "We believe that power should be passed from the politicians at Westminster back to the people of Britain, which is why we will keep the promise in our parties' manifestos and reform the House of Lords, because those who make laws for the people should answer to the people."
(5) When Benteke connected with a corner, his ensuing headed flick prefaced Delaney volleying fractionally wide.
(6) Admittedly Mourinho's side rallied after Yoan Gouffran headed Yohan Cabaye's ferociously whipped in free kick past Petr Cech but Newcastle's Mathieu Debuchy and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa especially were defending brilliantly and Chelsea came undone on the counter-attack as a fine cross from the underrated Vurnon Anita prefaced Loïc Rémy's wonderful finish.
(7) I feel slightly uncomfortable about this, prefacing every request for a lift with various extended apologies for "disturbing you" and "sorry for being a pain".
(8) Already in the preface of his book "Alimentary and Metabolic Diseases" Max Bürger writes: "I see a difficulty in the definition in the field of metabolic diseases.
(9) Even senior managers would preface announcements with “I know no one likes Michael Gove , but …” Another, who teaches history and politics at a comprehensive in Cheshire and is open with colleagues about his views but does not want students knowing how he votes, says he was “friendlily sworn at” on the day after the election.
(10) Yet in a preface to the book, Remnick alerts the reader to the fact that most of his subjects are public figures who do their best not to let their guard down.
(11) Mr Volcker, who was appointed by Mr Annan to carry out the investigation, released a five-page preface to his report last night after it was leaked to a news agency.
(12) Fortunately for Moyes, Watmore possessed sufficient drive to unhinge that backline courtesy of a startling change of pace and deftly dinked ball which prefaced Van Aanholt sending a half-volley looping into the net.
(13) In a new preface to his 1990 booklet on gay relationships, Jeffrey John, the Dean of St Albans, writes that, by setting themselves against same-sex marriage, the bishops of the Church have prioritised the union of the Anglican communion over the rights of gay Christians.
(14) Farage prefaced his comments with a prediction that he was sure the other leaders would be “mortified that I dare to even talk about it”.
(15) In the preface to another story, "The Snow Image", he described this sense of occlusion as he "sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible through the tangling depths of my obscurity".
(16) As the preface to the book, published by the small Parisian publishing house L'Opportun, states: "You will see that not only is Sarko difficult to follow but he is, above all, hard to find."
(17) On the surface, the grumpy pacifist iconoclast had little in common with the war hero author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom - apart from a weakness for inordinately long prefaces.
(18) We believe that Wall Street needs stronger rules and tougher enforcement, and we are willing to fight for it,” Warren proclaimed, during a whistle-stop tour through her priorities, each prefaced with “we believe”, that also included affordable education, better workers’ pensions, equal pay for women, legalisation of same-sex marriage, and immigration reform.
(19) So he positively enjoyed draping what is, in fact, a chilling allegory of paternal possessiveness and pseudo-scientific fanaticism, in the gaudy fabric of a "romance", just as the author pretends, in his pseudo-preface, to have discovered it among the works of "M de l'Aubépine" (French for "haw-thorn").
(20) The Rev Sharon Ferguson, a pastor of the Metropolitan Community church, prefaced her reaction to Wednesday's announcement with the phrase, "Without wanting to sound incredibly pessimistic …" Almost two years ago, Ferguson and her partner, Franka Strietzel, applied for a marriage licence at Greenwich register office and were refused because the law defines marriage as between one man and one woman.