prefiguration
See also: préfiguration
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- præfiguration (archaic)
Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.
Noun
[edit]prefiguration (countable and uncountable, plural prefigurations)
- A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished.
- 1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth:
- Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited
- Something that prefigures.
References
[edit]- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prefiguration”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.