2. Noun. (context: gerund of prefigure) A specific instance in which something is prefigured ¹
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Definition of Prefiguring
1. prefigure [v] - See also: prefigure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefiguring
Literary usage of Prefiguring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A practical commentary upon the first Epistle of st. Peter by Robert Leighton (1849)
"... as the chief point; the saving of righteous Noah and his family from it,
prefiguring the eternal salvation of believers, as our Apostle teacheth. 1. ..."
2. The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony by Alice Cunningham Fletcher, James R. Murie, Edwin S. Tracy (1904)
"prefiguring THE JOURNEY TO THE SON The ceremony of offering the Hako was believed
to bring great benefits. As the tie to be formed was a close one and ..."
3. Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness by Henri Bergson (1910)
"We thus pass imperceptibly from the first meaning to the second, and we picture
the causal relation as a kind of prefiguring of the future phenomenon in its ..."
4. The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony by Alice Cunningham Fletcher, James R. Murie, Edwin S. Tracy (1904)
"prefiguring THE JOURNEY TO THE SON The ceremony of offering the Hako was believed
to bring great benefits. As the tie to be formed was a close one and ..."
5. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1889)
"... prefiguring Doomsday and Antichrist. The Expositor instructs the people
concerning John's two witnesses Enoch and Elias, his prophecy of Antichrist, ..."
6. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1889)
"... the ascent of the ark into Zion might not unnaturally be taken as prefiguring
the ascension of Christ into heaven, and the captives and spoil, ..."
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