prelude
noun
a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
preludious
-
a word derived from
prelude.
Example Sentences
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A dispiriting hand tones down the great orchestra of Nature, and all her music is set to a minor key, her ‘Jubilate’ becoming a threnody—a great preludious sob.
From Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Marshall Mather
