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prefigurations

prefigurations is the plural 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

Questions about prefigurations

What is prefigurations the plural of?
Prefigurations is the plural of prefiguration.

Words near prefigurations in the dictionary

  1. prefigurate
  2. prefigurated
  3. prefigurates
  4. prefigurating
  5. prefiguration
  6. prefigurations
  7. prefigurative
  8. prefiguratively
  9. prefigurativeness
  10. prefigure
  11. prefigured

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