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Meanings of exordium in English

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Usage of exordium in English
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It was all in answer to Mr. Burke's general exordium and attack.
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2
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At this astounding exordium Paul eagerly pressed forward and entered the bureau.
A Ward of the Golden Gate
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His exordium over, Mr. Choate proceeds to define and to discuss Nationality.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 / A Magazi...
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After this terrible excitement follows the solemn exordium to her father's story,-
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 / A Mag...
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The proprietors have combined the capital and labor hinted at in my exordium.
Roughing It
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All four culprits will be in tears soon after the exordium.
Yet Again
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Here is the very striking and characteristic exordium to her autobiography:
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
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Here we have an exordium strangely similar to that of Mlle.
Samuel Brohl and Company
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This was, by way of exordium, the powerful skirmish line of the address.
William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist
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The deputation exchanged glances, puzzled by this pompous and peevish exordium.
South Wind
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This elegant and pleasantly exaggerated exordium preceded some very practical demonstrations.
Miscellanies
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For the young man's lengthy exordium had made him very drowsy.
Ensign Knightley, and Other Stories
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Every one present laughed at the exordium (and there the matter dropped).
The Memorabilia
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The answer was very simple, but the exordium was sublime.
The Voyage of Captain Popanilla
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The fragment on Paganini was a part of the exordium:-
The Violin / Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
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It was a direct, plain introduction; not a florid exordium.
From the Easy Chair, Volume 1
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