prelusive
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- prelusively adverb
- prelusorily adverb
Etymology
Origin of prelusive
Example Sentences
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The last words were murmured as if to himself rather than to us, and he accompanied them abstractedly with tentative, prelusive chords, which gradually grew into the most strangely moving music I have ever heard.
From A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by Sampson, George
At that hour my faith was weak, and I could not help remembering how, when I first crossed this unhappy threshold, my heart sighed heavily, and my very steps were reluctant and prelusive of sorrow.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
We hope to find that the last essay, upon the "Moral Ideal," is prelusive to another effort in this direction.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
Even the prelusive delicacies of the present writer—the curt "Astræan allusion"—would be thought pedantic, and out of date, in these days.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles
In Break, Break, Break, we hear a note prelusive to In Memoriam, much of which was already composed.
From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew
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