Prefiguration

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prefiguration \Pre*fig`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. praefiguratio.]
     The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.
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           A variety of prophecies and prefigurations. --Norris.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prefiguration
       n 1: an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come
       2: the act of providing vague advance indications; representing
          beforehand [syn: {foreshadowing}, {adumbration}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "prefiguration":
     actuarial prediction, adumbration, apocalypse, augury, auspice,
     betokening, betokenment, foreboding, forecast, forecasting,
     foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling,
     foretoken, foretokening, guesswork, improbability, indicant,
     indication, omen, portent, prediction, prefigurement, prefiguring,
     preindication, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign,
     premonitory symptom, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing,
     presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication,
     promise, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, shadow, sign, soothsay,
     speculation, statistical prediction, token, tokening, type,
     vaticination