proemium

noun

proemium

noun

Etymology From Latin prooemium, from Ancient Greek προοίμιον (prooímion).

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Rhetoric Synonym of proem.

[…] That, Whereas your ſpacious Proemiums, and ſpecious Introductions of premis’d Perſpicuity in Prædication, both inveigle our Affections for the Meliorating of our Minds; […]1702, H. D., A Pacquet from Parnassus: or, A Collection of Papers, volume I, number II, London: […] J. How, […], page 13:

Synonyms: foretale, prologue
Related terms: proemion, prooemion, proœmion

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