Definition of "prefacing" [prefacing]

• Present participle of preface. (verb)

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• "In the old days the BBC used to delight in prefacing anything to do with South Africa with the adjective ‘racist’ – the ‘racist government of South Africa’, for example."
• "And he said in prefacing that remark, "I speak as a man that has administered a great empire.""
• "A term prefacing a statement that will contradict an earlier view, as in: Weak vessels can’t handle dead kids."