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- noun Plural form of
preface . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
preface .
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The items that failed to pass contain prefaces for the Mass for various occasions; votive Masses and Masses for the dead; solemn blessings for the end of Mass; prayers over the people and eucharistic prayers for particular occasions, such as for evangelization or holy orders.
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Long before chefs could serve themselves up to a mass public on television, Soyer's books were both widely distributed, and offered ample opportunity for self-presentation, in prefaces and title pages, frontispieces and other illustrations, and even throughout the text, as we shall see in the case of his
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The prefaces from the first and second volumes of The
About this Hypertext 2002
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His prefaces are a complete log of his life, and the habit of writing them was a useful one to him, for it forced him to think with a pen in his hand, which, according to Goethe, "if it do no other good, keeps the mind from staggering about."
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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The French literary theorist Gérard Genette coined the neologism ‘paratext’ to describe subsidiary and secondary material such as prefaces, post-scripts, footnotes and illustrations, which illuminate, but are ultimately subservient to, the principle text.
Ballardian » Unique visual complexities: A review of Grande Anarca 2008
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But first came a more urgent question: Had his uncle and his "prefaces" committed him to forswear tobacco?
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But first came a more urgent question: Had his uncle and his "prefaces" committed him to forswear tobacco?
Count Bunker 1905
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When someone prefaces his or her purpose with a statement of incontrovertible authority, you have a divine mission.
Edward Muzio: Never Another Budget Crisis: Two Fixes We Can Make Right Now Edward Muzio 2011
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Among other things, the revised edition of the Missale Romanum contains prayers for the observances of recently canonized saints, additional prefaces for the Eucharistic Prayers, additional Votive Masses and Masses and Prayers for Various Needs and Intentions, and some updated and revised rubrics (instructions) for the celebration of the Mass.
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Later editions of the book even have prefaces in which Card boasts about the letters he has received from smart kids telling him how inspiring they found the book!
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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