Proof: Let be an object of and write . Let and suppose we have a morphism . By the argument of Proposition 3.2 we can construct the following commutative diagram:
with for each . We now construct the homotopy colimit, . By construction, the composite
is zero, so that we have the following commutative diagram:
That is, every morphism factors through .
Now we have:
for . We obtain the first isomorphism because the homotopy colimit commutes with the suspension functor and the second isomorphism by Lemma 3.5. The final equality is a consequence of the fact that for sufficiently large and . Hence we have . Therefore, setting , we obtain an -preenvelope .