prefigurement
nounEtymology From prefigure + -ment.
1
The act of prefiguring.
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
- adumbration, foreshadowing, prefiguration