prelude
noun
a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
preluding
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present participleof prelude.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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They were preluding a Pan-Pacific Buddhists' Conference to be held in Tokyo in 1934.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is terrible, it is magnificent; one seems to hear the chorus of the abysses of the old world preluding a new chaos.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
"Sunday?" repeats Linda, letting her fingers wander absently in dreamy preluding over the keys.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin
To the northward advanced, in serried columns of black, the beetling clouds that were turning the day into night, the distant booming of aërial artillery thundering forth the preluding cannonade of the charge.
From The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton by Wardon Allan Curtis
It is a story of Druid Gaul, captivating in its simplicity and superbly preluding the grand drama that is gradually unfolded from story to story, ending in the great French Revolution.
From The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium by Eugène Sue
