What does "prefiguration" mean?

A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished.

Prefiguration

Common synonyms include: actuarial prediction, adumbrating, adumbration, adumbration, apocalypse, augury.

noun

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Noun

1
A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished. countable, uncountable
"Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited"
2
the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand wordnet
3
Something that prefigures. countable, uncountable
4
an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come wordnet

"Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited"

From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.