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Prefiguration

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that prefigures. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come wordnet

Etymology

From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.

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