prefigure

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To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand
To predict or foresee
{v} to represent or show beforehand
to presage, portend or foreshadow
If one thing prefigures another, it is a first indication which suggests or determines that the second thing will happen. The wall through Berlin was finally ruptured, prefiguring the reunification of Germany. to be a sign that something will happen later (praefigurare, from figurare )
to give an indication of something that has not yet happened
indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"
To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow
imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured"
{f} imagine in advance, picture beforehand; represent in advance, depict ahead of time
imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured
prefiguration
a vague advance representation or suggestion of something
prefiguring
A specific instance in which something is prefigured
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Present participle of prefigure
prefiguration
{n} a foregoing representation
To prefigure
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prefiguration
an vague advance representation or suggestion of something
prefiguration
an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come
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something that prefigures
prefiguration
the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come
prefiguration
the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
prefiguration
{i} act of imagining in advance, act of picturing mentally beforehand; advance depiction, early representation; archetype, prototype
prefiguration
The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured
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