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prefigurements

prefigurements is the plural of prefigurement.

Meaning of prefigurement

Noun

prefigurement (countable and uncountable, plural prefigurements)

  1. The act of prefiguring.
    Synonyms:
    symbolism
  2. Something that prefigures.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    hint, symbol, type

Questions about prefigurements

What is prefigurements the plural of?
Prefigurements is the plural of prefigurement.

Words near prefigurements in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prefigurements (page history and authors); prefigurement (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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