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prologuing

prologuing is the present participle and gerund of prologue.

Meaning of prologue

Verb

prologue (third-person singular simple present prologues, present participle prologuing, simple past and past participle prologued)

  1. (rhetoric) To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
    • […]harbindgers preceading ſtill the fates
      and prologue to the Omen comming on[…]c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604...

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Questions about prologuing

What is prologuing the present participle and gerund of?
Prologuing is the present participle and gerund of prologue.

Words near prologuing in the dictionary

  1. prologued
  2. prologuelike
  3. prologuer
  4. prologuers
  5. prologues
  6. prologuing
  7. prologuise
  8. prologuised
  9. prologuises
  10. prologuising
  11. prologuist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prologuing (page history and authors); prologue (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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