prolegomenon

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Sovereign Nations is a group that, on its website, describes itself “as a prolegomenon to the formation of a new, and not just sentimental, conservative and Constitutional Republic.”

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2018

Instead, what emerged from the session was yet another prolegomenon to future negotiations, brokered at the very last minute—and over the objections of many other world leaders—by President Barack Obama.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 24, 2015

A second prolegomenon: believe it or not, I don’t dislike Brad DeLong.

From Forbes • Sep. 22, 2014

The miscellanies really stand to the novels in the relation of a sort of prolegomenon.

From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick

The play, one feels, must remain unique, for the prolegomenon cannot be rewritten while the philosophy is unchanged.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius