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  • verb Present participle of prefigure.
  • noun A specific instance in which something is prefigured

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Examples

  • The literature of twentieth-century totalitarianism, whether in prefiguring the epoch of Nazism and Stalinism or in drawing on it, often relied on un homme moyen sensuel — the luckless particle swept up in the process, or the worm from whose eye the titanic, forbidding edifice could be squintingly, even cringingly, scrutinized.

    Survivor 2004

  • The literature of twentieth-century totalitarianism, whether in prefiguring the epoch of Nazism and Stalinism or in drawing on it, often relied on un homme moyen sensuel — the luckless particle swept up in the process, or the worm from whose eye the titanic, forbidding edifice could be squintingly, even cringingly, scrutinized.

    Survivor 2004

  • Here's another kind of prefiguring of epoxy because we've got glutenin and gliadin, neither of which are strong enough to make a good bread.

    Peter Reinhart on bread Peter Reinhart 2008

  • Here's another kind of prefiguring of epoxy because we've got glutenin and gliadin, neither of which are strong enough to make a good bread.

    Peter Reinhart on bread Peter Reinhart 2008

  • Here's another kind of prefiguring of epoxy because we've got glutenin and gliadin, neither of which are strong enough to make a good bread.

    Peter Reinhart on bread Peter Reinhart 2008

  • The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray 1931

  • The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890

  • The hero, the wonderful young Parisian, in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1877

  • Parisian, in whom the romantic temperament and the scientific temperament were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1877

  • "prefiguring" a future event, kaphar represents a rewriting of the Epic.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Danielitld 2009

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