Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
proem .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Proem.
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- noun Obsolete form of
proem .
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Examples
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Wherefore to conclude the proheme to my present purpose, let none be over rash in condemning women: for what they do to their husbands, being jealous without occasion; but rather commend their wit and providence.
The Decameron 2004
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For after the proheme of the oracion and the narracion/than go we to the prouynge of our mater.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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Perhaps I ought not to call it a fac-simile, for it is, in many respects, more beautifully executed.] [Footnote 193: The reader may see all this, and much more, dressed in its ancient orthographic garb, in a proheme to the first edition of the merry art of fishing, extracted by
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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