Both Uses
preamble
in
The Fountainhead
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- "I told you not to worry," Mike said to him once, without preamble, "at the trial that was.†
Chpt 4.1
- One evening, she said without preamble.†
Chpt 4.7 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(preamble) a preliminary introduction to a speech, statute, or other writing -- usually explaining its purpose
or more rarely:
anything that precedes something else - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)