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Prefiguration

noun

An example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come.

The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand. Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing.

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"Prefiguration" Quotes from Famous Books

... Russia's most high-minded sons and daughters.[283] It is not in the French Revolution that those deeds of wanton destruction and revolting cruelty which are indissolubly associated with Bolshevism find a parallel, but in Chinese history, which offers a striking and curious prefiguration of the Leninist structure.[284] Toward the middle of the tenth century, when the empire was plunged in dire confusion, a mystical sect was formed there for the purpose of destroying by force every vestige of the traditional social fabric, and establishing a system of complete equality ...

— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... authority on etching says that "nothing in Rembrandt's work is more exhaustive or more subtle," and S. R. Koehler, an American authority, called it "a magnificent little portrait, complete artistically and technically," and very truly refers to it as "a prefiguration of what was to come." A man of twenty-two years already ...

— Rembrandt and His Etchings • Louis Arthur Holman

Words linked to "Prefiguration" : prefigure, prediction, prevision, anticipation, model, example