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exords

exords is the plural of exord.

Meaning of exord

Noun

exord (plural exords)

  1. (rhetoric) A preface or prefatory passage.
    • One peculiarity of Bello is his having first broken through the custom of religious invocations at the heads of his cantos, in place of which he substituted poetical exords, or reflections on the events of his narrative, or on circumstances connected with them.1830, “Ferrario -- On Chivalry and Romance and Italian Romantic Poetry”, in Foreign Quarterly Review, volume VI, number XIII, page 387
    Synonyms:
    preface, proem, exordium

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Noun capitalized: EXORDS

EXORDS

  1. (plural) plural of EXORD

Questions about exords

What is exords the plural of?
Exords is the plural of exord.
What part of speech is exords?
Exords is a noun.

Words near exords in the dictionary

  1. exord
  2. exordia
  3. exordial
  4. exordium
  5. exordiums
  6. exords
  7. exoreic
  8. exoresistant
  9. exorheic
  10. exorheism
  11. exorhiza

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