Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of prelude
nounpreluding (plural preludings)
plural preludings
- Something serving as a prelude; an introductory work or remark.
In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
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