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Prefigure

verb
(past & past part. prefigured; pres. part. prefiguring)
1.
Imagine or consider beforehand.
2.
Indicate by signs.  Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate.





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"Prefigure" Quotes from Famous Books



... account of its insensibility to pain and hunger and poverty when these lie outside a narrow radius of bright intensive living; humanitarianism, on account of its failure to honor the highest type of attainment and to prefigure a ...
— The Moral Economy • Ralph Barton Perry
... occur when two standards of morals, both honestly held and believed in, are brought sharply together. The awkwardness and constraint we experience when two standards of conventions and manners clash but feebly prefigure this deeper difference. ...
— Democracy and Social Ethics • Jane Addams
... Thus, in the same book, we may have two scenes, each capital in its order: in the one, human passion, deep calling unto deep, shall utter its genuine voice; in the second, according circumstances, like instruments in tune, shall build up a trivial but desirable incident, such as we love to prefigure for ourselves; and in the end, in spite of the critics, we may hesitate to give the preference to either. The one may ask more genius—I do not say it does; but at least the other dwells as ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson


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