A critical or discursive introduction to a book.
A preliminary discussion, especially a formal essay introducing a work of considerable length or complexity.
PROLEGOMENA - Prefatory remarks or observations.
Derivatives: PROLEGOMENOUS - adjective
ORIGIN mid 17th century
PROLEGOMENON is a mouthful. I love it.
PROLEGOMENON sounds a lot like a PROLOGUE to me, in both pronunciation and the definition. They are like cousins. And their other cousin PREFATORY (similar in sound and meaning to PREFACE). A whole family of words. =0)
There wasn’t a sample sentence for this one in my desktop dictionary, so I’ll take a stab at it. The PROLEGOMENON to the tome made the complexity of the discourse more comprehensible.
Though I like this word, I would be hard pressed to use it in one of my novels. I would need a pretentious character who always uses words that no one else does or knows. He/she would likely feel superior to others or have a low self-esteem they are trying to make up for or hide. Now, that gets me thinking. Who could I develop like that, and what story might they fit into? Hmm . . . It makes a brain wonder. =0)
NEW!
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.Washington State, 1893
When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available in ebook and paperback.
COURTING HER SECRET HEART
A Prodigal Daughters story, Book 2
Caught between two worlds…Deborah Miller lives a double life as an Amish woman—and a fashion model! All photography is forbidden in her Plain community, so she must keep her job a secret. But when Amos Burkholder starts helping at her family’s farm, hiding the truth from him is impossible. And soon she must choose between the Englisher world of modeling and the Amish man she’s come to love.
Book 3 in the Prodigal Daughters series due to release January 2019, COURTING HER PRODIGAL HEART#ChristianRomance #HistoricalRomance #Romance
MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, &“Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-four years and two cats. She has three adult children and two incredibly adorable grandchildren. Find her online at:
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