præfiguration

A form of prefiguration — A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished; something that prefigures.

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Meanings

nounpræfiguration (countable and uncountable, plural præfigurations)

plural præfigurations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of prefiguration.

    For which reasons I think it rather probable that the murderous anti‐theism of Herod the Edomite was among the reasons for that name being used in præfiguration of the great apostacy.

    1828, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, volume III, page 410
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