prefiguration
noun
the act of prefiguring.
prefigurative
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a word derived from
prefiguration.
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a word derived from
prefigure.
prefigureverb (used with object)to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
Example Sentences
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Lies and evasions about past wars are prefigurative for future wars.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2023
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
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 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
