Exord

Origin

From Latin exordium

Full definition of exord

Noun

1. (literature) A preface or prefatory passage
• One peculiarity of Bello is his having first broken through the custom of religious invocations at the heads of his cantos, in place of which he substituted poetical exords, or reflections on the events of his narrative, or on circumstances connected with them.

Synonyms

• preface
• proem
• exordium

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