preluding

English

Verb

preluding

1. present participle of prelude

Noun

preluding (plural preludings)

1. Something serving as a prelude; an introductory work or remark.
   • Edgar Allan Poe

     In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.