prefiguration
Americannoun
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the act of prefiguring
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something that prefigures, such as a prototype
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of prefiguration
1350–1400; Middle English prefiguracioun < Late Latin praefigūrātiōn- (stem of praefigūrātiō ), equivalent to praefigūrāt ( us ) (past participle of praefigūrāre to prefigure ) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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And the “Laudamus Te,” with its insistent back-and-forth reiteration of the simplest consonant harmonies, sounds like a prefiguration of Virgil Thomson’s “Four Saints in Three Acts.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
It’s a prefiguration — of how to think, how to collaborate, and how to stay sane when the private is gone.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Since the early 20th century, Cycladic figures have had iconic power for contemporary artists, as an ancient prefiguration of abstraction.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
You might call it a prefiguration of the Bannon movie.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
The allusion is to the redemption of mankind by the sufferings and compassionate death of Christ; and that stupendous tragedy is the prefiguration of the mimic drama which Wagner has constructed.
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel
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