Definition of Prefigurements

1. Noun. (plural of prefigurement) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prefigurements

1. prefigurement [n] - See also: prefigurement

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefigurements

prefetches
prefetching
prefeudal
prefices
prefidence
prefidences
prefident
prefight
prefiguration
prefigurations
prefigurative
prefiguratively
prefigure
prefigured
prefigurement
prefigurements (current term)
prefigures
prefiguring
prefigurings
prefile
prefiled
prefiles
prefiling
prefill
prefilled
prefilling
prefills
prefilm
prefilter
prefiltered

Literary usage of Prefigurements

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Christian Dogmatics: A Compendium of the Doctrines of Christianity by Hans Martensen, William Urwick (1874)
"The perspective of the future widens and extends before the Seer's vision in proportion as the historical types and prefigurements ..."

2. The Middle Years by Henry James (1917)
"The fond prefigurements of youthful piety are predestined more often than not, I think, experience interfering, to strange and violent shocks; from which no ..."

3. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"Those Old Testament incidents were selected which for centuries had been interpreted as prefigurements of the ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"The new Realities are not yet come: ah not only Phantasms, Paper models, tentative prefigurements of such! In France there are now Four Million Landed ..."

5. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"It should be the aim of the clinical teacher to emphasize unceasingly the urgency of obtaining the earliest possible indications, omens or prefigurements of ..."

6. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"The funeral orations upon the calves, interesting prefigurements of the future discourses composed for Mark Antony, may have served for a time as a vent for ..."

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