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Definition of Prefigurements
1. prefigurement [n] - See also: prefigurement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefigurements
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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