prelusive
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- prelusively adverb
- prelusorily adverb
Etymology
Origin of prelusive
Example Sentences
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Hepzibah involuntarily thought of the ghostly harmonies, prelusive of death in the family, which were attributed to the legendary Alice.
From House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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
During an entire generation they furnished the arena for the prelusive strife of that war.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 by Various
In Break, Break, Break, we hear a note prelusive to In Memoriam, much of which was already composed.
From Alfred Tennyson by Lang, Andrew
Loke was the cause of the former prelusive war.
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
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