Usually means: Anticipation or foreshadowing of future events.
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  1. prefigurement: Merriam-Webster
  2. prefigurement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prefigurement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prefigurement: Wordnik
  5. prefigurement: Wiktionary
  6. Prefigurement, prefigurement: Dictionary.com
  7. Prefigurement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. prefigurement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Prefigurement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. prefigurement: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Prefigurement: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prefigurement: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prefigurement)

▸ noun:  The act of prefiguring.
▸ noun:  Something that prefigures.

Similar:
prefiguration, præfiguration, prefigurativeness, presagement, prefigation, presaging, foreseeing, foretoken, premonstration, prelude, more...

Types:
foreshadowing, portent, augury, harbinger, more...

Adjectives:
own, first, continuous, cartilaginous, sacred, dim, striking, emblematic, theoretical, accurate

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Similar:
prefiguration, præfiguration, prefigurativeness, presagement, prefigation, presaging, foreseeing, foretoken, premonstration, prelude, more...

Types:
foreshadowing, portent, augury, harbinger, more...

Adjectives:
own, first, continuous, cartilaginous, sacred, dim, striking, emblematic, theoretical, accurate



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