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exordium
literature
- Latin:
- “warp laid on a loom before the web is begun” or “starting point,”
- Plural:
- exordiums or exordia
- Related Topics:
- rhetoric
exordium, in literature, the beginning or introduction, especially the introductory part of a discourse or composition. The term originally referred specifically to one of the traditional divisions of a speech established by classical rhetoricians.