prefiguration

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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.

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