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• præfiguration (archaic)

語源

From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.

名詞

prefiguration (countable and uncountable, plural prefigurations)

1. A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished.
   • 1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth:

     Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited

2. Something that prefigures.

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “prefiguration”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.