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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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
But we can see their prefigurative forms in the lives of young people all over the world breaking down 20th-century barriers around sexuality, work, creativity and the self.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2015
Like all the cottagers in Blackmoor Vale, Tess was steeped in fancies and prefigurative superstitions; she thought this an ill omen—the first she had noticed that day.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
