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prefigure
[ pree-fig-yer ]
verb (used with object)
- to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- to picture or represent to oneself beforehand; imagine.
prefigure
/ priːˈfɪɡə /
verb
- to represent or suggest in advance
- to imagine or consider beforehand
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Derived Forms
- preˈfigurement, noun
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Other Words From
- pre·fig·ur·a·tive [pree-, fig, -yer-, uh, -tiv], adjective
- pre·figur·a·tive·ly adverb
- pre·figur·a·tive·ness noun
- pre·figure·ment noun
- unpre·figured adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prefigure1
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Example Sentences
The querulous, interconnected pamphlets printed in seventeenth-century Europe prefigure the culture of modern blogging.
We must see him through some lenses—we must prefigure his immortality.
The friendships of young girls prefigure the closer relations which will one day come in and dissolve their earlier intimacies.
He had tried feebly to prefigure this face, but never had his visioning approached the actual in its majestic, still beauty.
Let the fact of this great gift prefigure to us the august office of Woman.
May it faintly prefigure the unending blackness of that eternal night you have chosen as your future portion.
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