prefigurement
English
Noun
prefigurement (countable and uncountable, plural prefigurements)
- The act of prefiguring; prefiguration.
- That which is prefigured.
- 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
- Surely there was here, in his pious, ever-labouring, subtle mind, a precious truth, or prefigurement of truth ; and yet a fatal delusion withal.
- 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for prefigurement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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