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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come;

2. the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand;
[syn: prefiguration, foreshadowing, adumbration]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Prefiguration \Pre*fig`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. praefiguratio.]
   The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.
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         A variety of prophecies and prefigurations. --Norris.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

prefiguration
    n 1: an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come
    2: the act of providing vague advance indications; representing
       beforehand [syn: prefiguration, foreshadowing,
       adumbration]