prefiguration

See also: préfiguration

English

Alternative forms

• præfiguration (archaic)

Etymology

From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.

Noun

prefiguration (countable and uncountable, plural prefigurations)

1. A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished.
   • 1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth:

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

2. Something that prefigures.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “prefiguration”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.