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præfiguration

præfiguration is the obsolete spelling of prefiguration.

Meaning of prefiguration

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.
    • Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth

Forms of præfiguration

pluralpræfigurations

Questions about præfiguration

What is præfiguration the obsolete spelling of?
Præfiguration is the obsolete spelling of prefiguration.

Words near præfiguration in the dictionary

  1. præferre
  2. præferred
  3. præferres
  4. præferring
  5. præfers
  6. præfiguration
  7. præfigurations
  8. præfigured
  9. præfigures
  10. præfix
  11. præfix'd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præfiguration (page history and authors); prefiguration (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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