1. preface - Noun
2. preface - Verb
Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.
To introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to preface a book discourse.
To make a preface.
Source: Webster's dictionary[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. Christopher Hitchens
It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space. THAT is my subject; all that has gone before is merely preface. Edwin Abbott Abbott
What if the equality between us human being, in which we completely resemble one another, were that none of us really thinks about his being loved? Preface P. 166. Soren Kierkegaard
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors. James Rollins
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface. Philip Guedalla
Please don't read the preface for the teacher. Edmund Landau