preface
noun
a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc.
unprefaced
-
a word derived from
preface.
Example Sentences
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Abrupt and unprefaced as her speech was, it scarcely produced the effect she had expected it would.
From "Seth" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
He realized that he must protect her even from himself—from the shock she would suffer by his unprefaced appearance, this lover who would come like one risen from the dead!
From When Egypt Went Broke by Holman Day
He had long before learned to play up, solemnly, to those unprefaced and disingenuous leads.
From Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans
Now, presto! with the sudden trickeries of a mountebank the sprite who played with my destinies ushered in another unprefaced era.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
And, Mary's return being delayed, Sibyl found time to think this unprefaced exit odder and ruder than she had first considered it.
From The Turmoil, a novel by Booth Tarkington
