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prælection

prælection is the obsolete form of prelection.

Meaning of prelection

Noun

prelection (plural prelections)

  1. A public lecture or reading, especially delivered at a college or university.
    • ‘I'd like ter put ye in thar,’ replied Cheever, who had stolidly eyed him during this prelection.1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 80

Forms of prælection

pluralprælections

Questions about prælection

What is prælection the obsolete form of?
Prælection is the obsolete form of prelection.

Words near prælection in the dictionary

  1. præjudicate
  2. præjudice
  3. præjudiced
  4. præjudices
  5. præjudicing
  6. prælection
  7. prælections
  8. præliminaries
  9. præliminary
  10. prælude
  11. præludes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prælection (page history and authors); prelection (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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