proem

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After a moment or two, I said, “Well, some died in the war, and, if you read the proem carefully, you’ll recall that others died ‘through their own recklessness.’

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017

With this bold proem, George R. Barnes, director of BBC's "Third Program,"*launched one of the boldest ventures in the history of broadcasting.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is supposed to have consisted at least of two books, of which we have but the proem of the first, and a small portion of the second.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry

The poems were a grand proem to the novels.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

This bitter attack on his beloved art gave the occasion for Vondel's famous vindication of the drama in his proem to the "Lucifer."

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den