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  • noun Plural form of proem.

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Examples

  • The proems are the most original poetic compositions in the

    Lucretius Sedley, David 2008

  • A lot of the problems that we have been talking about today for the black community are really proems in America.

    CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2008 2008

  • A lot of the problems that we have been talking about today for the black community are really proems in America.

    CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2008 2008

  • A lot of the problems that we have been talking about today for the black community are really proems in America.

    CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2008 2008

  • And this is the function Lucretius too gives them, especially in the proems to books 1, 3, 5 and

    Lucretius Sedley, David 2008

  • Pentateuch; its homilies consist of a Halachic introduction, followed by several proems, exposition of the opening verses, and the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The practice seems to have been for the rhapsodist first to pay his reverence to the god, "to begin from the god," at whose festival the recitation was being given (the short proems collected in the Hymns pay this reverence), "and then proceed with his rhapsody" -- with his selected passage from the _Iliad_,

    Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

  • Before "Foreclosures: No End in Sight," one of today's proems from the seventeen good people who collect paychecks on the New York Times editorial board, fades away, it's worth dissecting, just to see the fungus of dissembling and illogic that infects it like mold in an REO property:

    Reason Magazine 2009

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