prefigurative
- a word derived from prefiguration.
- a word derived from prefigure.
Example Sentences
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Another way to think of it that political scientists use is the word "prefigurative," where the idea is that you're creating the world that you're imagining for the future.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2022
And as the pandemic unfolded its strange monotony and appalling casualties, the mix of stasis and upheaval in Sorey’s music struck me as almost eerily prefigurative of this era in American history.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2021
Working in this way, we will be enacting what Carl Boggs called "prefigurative" politics: creating now the "forms of social relations, decision-making, culture, and human experience that are the ultimate goal."
From Salon • Jul. 19, 2020
Christie, Black, the Clintons, the Trumps, the Trump children: more prefigurative dramatis personae could hardly be concocted.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016
She that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
