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exordium

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8 lettersPronunciation /ɛɡˈzɔːdɪəm/Part of speech nounSorted deimoruxStarts with EEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin exordium (“beginning, commencement”), from exōrdior (“to begin, commence”), from ex (“out of, from”) + ōrdior (“to begin”).

Used in a sentence

  • Cicero thinks, in discourses of philosophy, the exordium to be the hardest part: if it be so, I wisely lay hold on the conclusion.
  • This is a feeble article of faith to begin with, but it helps to push my pen through this exordium and what now follows.

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