prefiguration

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished. countable,uncountable
    — Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited
  2. Something that prefigures. countable,uncountable

词形变化

prefigurations plural præfiguration alternative

词源

From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.
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