Definition of "prefaces" [prefaces]

• Plural form of preface. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of preface. (verb)

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• "The items that failed to pass contain prefaces for the Mass for various occasions; votive Masses and Masses for the dead; solemn blessings for the end of Mass; prayers over the people and eucharistic prayers for particular occasions, such as for evangelization or holy orders."
• "Long before chefs could serve themselves up to a mass public on television, Soyer's books were both widely distributed, and offered ample opportunity for self-presentation, in prefaces and title pages, frontispieces and other illustrations, and even throughout the text, as we shall see in the case of his"
• "The prefaces from the first and second volumes of The"