prefigurement

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Some Fathers see this ram as a prefigurement of Jesus Christ, insofar as, like Christ, the ram. was immolated in order to save man.

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  1. The act of prefiguring; antecedent representation; presage; prognostication. The two young women who constituted at Marmion his whole prefigurement of a social circle must, in such a locality as that, be taking a regular holiday. H. James, Jr., The Century, XXXI. 91.

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  • But the word "dragon" is an apt description of the demonic forces that are defeated in Christ's death and its prefigurement in Baptism. —  Glory to God for All Things
  • Some Fathers see this ram as a prefigurement of Jesus Christ, insofar as, like Christ, the ram. was immolated in order to save man. —  Latest Articles
  • It was not quite easy to see why this had been the case -- it had not been precisely Peter's own prefigurement. —  The Tragic Muse
  • If the prefigurement was at any point vague it was none the less arresting. —  Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
  • From Adam to Isaiah there was a continuous prefigurement of Christ. —  Mark Rutherford's Deliverance
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  1. = Italian prefiguramento; as prefigure + -ment.
 

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