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English
Noun
proheme (plural prohemes)
- Obsolete spelling of proem (“preamble”).
1629 , Paolo Sarpi, translated by Nathaniel Brent, The Historie of the Councel of Trent , London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, →OCLC, book 1, paragraph 77, page 33:In the proheme of the Constitutions the Cardinall said, that to reforme the life & manners of the Clergie being a thing of great moment for the rooting out of the Lutheran heresie, he had ordained these decrees by the counsell of the Princes, and Prelats assembled with him,
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Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French proheme, from Latin prooemium, from Ancient Greek προοίμιον (prooímion).
Noun
proheme (plural prohemes)
- proem (introduction, preamble)
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