prelude
noun
a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
had preluded
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past perfectof prelude.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Preparatory to his copious History of the Stuarts, he had preluded by two smaller works his “Critical History of England,” and his “Clarendon and Whitelocke Compared.”
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
