exordium
noun
the beginning of anything.
exordiums
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pluralof exordium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Now to the point," I cried; "for exordiums be tedious.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
In his hortatory asides and didactic moralizings with their thees and thous and yeas, he is still the fine essayist, like Fielding in his eighteenth century prefatory exordiums.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton
Indeed, judged by some of her early work in the reviews, and by the little philosophic exordiums with which she opens so many of her chapters, Tasma would have made a brilliant essayist.
From Australian Writers by Desmond Byrne
The period is proper for the exordiums of greater causes, where the matter requires solicitude, commendation, pity.
From The Training of a Public Speaker by Grenville Kleiser
In that highflown oratory, with its carefully studied exordiums, periods and perorations can be clearly discerned the reverence given to power as embodied by possession of property.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus
