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Prefigure   Listen
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Prefigure  v. t.  (past & past part. prefigured; pres. part. prefiguring)  To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured."






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"Prefigure" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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



Words linked to "Prefigure" :   envisage, prefigurative, foreshadow, imagine, conceive of, omen, forecast, prognosticate, foreshow, indicate, point, presage, foretell, bode, bespeak, signal



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