prefigure
verb (used with object)
to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
prefigurement
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a word derived from
prefigure.
Example Sentences
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You have my permission to take the plot line, about a retired general struggling with a Vermont resort hotel during a winter without snow, as a prefigurement of global warming, if you wish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
It’s a question also raised by the second note on the album’s opening track: bowling off toward somewhere brighter and more hopeful, a prefigurement of the songs to follow, which are punchier and more immediate.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2019
“Ultimately,” Siebert writes, “Zootopia is not a reinvention of the zoo as much as a prefigurement of its inhabitants’ only possible future … a wilderness with us lurking at its very heart.”
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2016
In an eerie prefigurement of his own condition, Agee's pet magpie is one day besieged by hundreds of wild members of its species outside the window.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was not the mere reflection of her body, but a prefigurement of her buoyant spirit, that had escaped from her control and tauntingly eluded capture.
From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson
