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prolusions

prolusions is the plural of prolusion.

Meaning of prolusion

Noun

prolusion (plural prolusions)

  1. A trial before the principal performance; a prelude.
    • Domestic prolusions.1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC
  2. An introductory essay.
    • Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine, whose prolusion lasted the longer […]1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC

Questions about prolusions

What is prolusions the plural of?
Prolusions is the plural of prolusion.

Words near prolusions in the dictionary

  1. prolotherapists
  2. prolotherapy
  3. proluciferin
  4. proluminescent
  5. prolusion
  6. prolusions
  7. prolusory
  8. proluvia
  9. proluvial
  10. proluvium
  11. proly

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