prefiguration
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See also: préfiguration
Alternative forms
- præfiguration (archaic)
Etymology
From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.
Noun
prefiguration (countable and uncountable, plural prefigurations)
- 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
- Something that prefigures.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prefiguration”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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