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prefigured

prefigured is the simple past and past participle of prefigure.

Meaning of prefigure

Verb

prefigure (third-person singular simple present prefigures, present participle prefiguring, simple past and past participle prefigured)

  1. (often in a Biblical context) To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.
    • Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, all prefigure NRx urban futures.2018 September 29, Roger Burrows, “On Neoreaction”, in The Sociological Review Magazine
  2. To predict or foresee.

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Questions about prefigured

What is prefigured the simple past and past participle of?
Prefigured is the simple past and past participle of prefigure.

Words near prefigured in the dictionary

  1. prefigurations
  2. prefigurative
  3. prefiguratively
  4. prefigurativeness
  5. prefigure
  6. prefigured
  7. prefigurement
  8. prefigurements
  9. prefigures
  10. prefigureth
  11. prefiguring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prefigured (page history and authors); prefigure (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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