prefiguration

See also: préfiguration

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.

Noun

prefiguration (countable and uncountable, plural prefigurations)

  1. A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished; something that prefigures.
    • 1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth:
      Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited
    • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 103, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish):
      This is a kind of early, obscure prefiguration of Marx's later theory of 'commodity fetishism'.

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