Lexicographical Neighbors of Exordiums
Literary usage of Exordiums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay on the Composition of a Sermon by Jean Claude (1849)
"the text, or to make some reflections throughout the whole sermon, enter immediately
into the matter without any exordiums at all. ..."
2. The Physical and Metaphysical Works of Lord Bacon Including the Advancement by Francis Bacon, Joseph Devey (1904)
"... of Things (the pro and con. of General Questions); the Minor Forms of Speech (the
Elaboration of exordiums, Perorations, and Leading Arguments). ..."
3. Rhetoric and Oratory by John Francis Xavier O'Conor (1898)
"ABRUPT exordiums. Hostilities with America . . . Lord Chatham. My Lords, this a
flying moment; perhaps but six weeks left to arrest the dangers that ..."
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