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Definition of Prelusively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prelusively
Literary usage of Prelusively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"All this while he has but been prelusively flourishing his tool, in a somewhat
flowery style, partly to win the admiration of spectators, partly to please ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1893)
"In the latter text the apostle had spoken prelusively of a righteousness of God
which he had not at that point the opportunity of further explaining, ..."
3. Literary Reminiscences: From The Autobiography of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1851)
"... painfully, and pathetically imprinted upon my remembrance, as this very one,
on which I tried, prelusively, as it were, that same road in solitude, ..."
4. St. Paul's Conception of Christianity by Alexander Balmain Bruce (1894)
"In the latter text the apostle had spoken prelusively of a righteousness of God
which he had not at that point the opportunity of further explaining, ..."
5. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1893)
"In the latter text the apostle had spoken prelusively of a righteousness of God
which he had not at that point the opportunity of further explaining, ..."
6. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1878)
"What appears as it were prelusively, unconsciously, and imperfectly in the one (the
historical development), is in the other (the philosophical development) ..."
7. Biblical Commentary on the Psalms by Franz Delitzsch, Francis Bolton (1871)
"... after having been only prelusively realized in David and Solomon, must go on
being fulfilled in his seed exactly as the promise runs. ..."
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