prefiguration

How To Use prefiguration In A Sentence

• It was the prefiguration, the signpost up ahead that Rome had already fallen. Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future
• Then the paper points out that we need to study other countries' regulation of the voluntary confession rule. Then it integrates the rule's reality and prefiguration.
• Then the paper points out that we need to study other countries' regulation of the voluntary confession rule. Then it integrates the rule's reality and prefiguration.
• Cooper's idea was for ‘a powerful beast from a lost world… giving a hint, a prefiguration of the dawn of man.‘
• The ginger-haired baby Elizabeth is mainly a squalling infant in the period of the narrative, which chiefly covers the years 1527 – 35, but in the figure of her sibling Mary, one is given a chilling prefiguration of the coming time when the bonfires of English heretics will really start to blaze in earnest. The Men Who Made England
• This of old was accounted a prefiguration and mystical pointing out of the Pythian divineress, who used always, before the uttering of a response from the oracle, to shake a branch of her domestic laurel. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
• It also consists in Edwards 'extension of typology, the practice of interpreting things, persons, or events (the “type”) as symbols or prefigurations of future realities (the “antitype”). Jonathan Edwards
• Prefiguration and 'post-figuration' are equally important in a novel whose nominal author we encounter as a dead soul. The Times Literary Supplement
• From this, and from the many groans and sighs that are reported of the boy (who still struggled to keep reading, an activity feared and despised by his father, as it was by the owner of Frederick Douglass), we receive a prefiguration of the politician who declared in 1856, “I used to be a slave.” Lincoln’s Emancipation
• The Christian perception of time was based on prefiguration: all of life was just counting down to the Day of Judgement.