prefigurement
English
Noun
prefigurement (countable and uncountable, plural prefigurements)
- The act of prefiguring; prefiguration.
- Something which is prefigured.
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling:
- Surely there was here, in his pious, ever-labouring, subtle mind, a precious truth, or prefigurement of truth ; and yet a fatal delusion withal.
References
- “prefigurement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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