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prefigurings

prefigurings is the plural of prefiguring.

Meaning of prefiguring

Noun

prefiguring (plural prefigurings)

  1. (gerund) A specific instance in which something is prefigured
    • This book’s culture clashes are every bit as memorable as its eerie prefigurings of the present financial meltdowns.2009 January 15, Janet Maslin, “A Monetary Horror Story That Looks Like Today’s”, in New York Times

Questions about prefigurings

What is prefigurings the plural of?
Prefigurings is the plural of prefiguring.

Words near prefigurings in the dictionary

  1. prefigurement
  2. prefigurements
  3. prefigures
  4. prefigureth
  5. prefiguring
  6. prefigurings
  7. prefile
  8. prefiled
  9. prefiles
  10. prefiling
  11. prefill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prefigurings (page history and authors); prefiguring (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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