Meanings
nounprolusion (plural prolusions)
plural prolusions
- 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 - 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
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
Broader
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinprolusio
- Englishprolusion
From Latin prolusio, from proludere (“to prelude”).
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APA
prolusion. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolusion
MLA
“prolusion.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolusion. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prolusion,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prolusion.
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