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preface

1. a statement written as an introduction to a literary or other work, typically explaining its scope, intention, method, etc.; foreword
2. RC Church a prayer of thanksgiving and exhortation serving as an introduction to the canon of the Mass
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This edition contains a new brief preface by the author, written in November 2012.
Leading change; with a new preface by the author. (reprint, 1986)
These front matter pages may include: foreword, preface by the editor, preface, acknowledgements and introduction.
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In Dissemination (1981), Jacques Derrida opens his work with an eccentric foreword that simultaneously prefaces and deconstructs the character of the preface by drawing attention to the ambiguity inherent in a concept that at first sight appears to be straightforward:
On the edge of the text preface and reader in Ovid's Amores

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