noun
- something that foreshadows or represents beforehand; an anticipatory representation or sign of something to come
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The storm clouds were a prefigurement of the disaster that would follow.
- Many scholars see the Old Testament as a prefigurement of Christian themes.
- The artist’s early sketches served as a prefigurement of his masterpiece.
- The economic indicators provided a prefigurement of the coming recession.
- Her childhood dreams were a prefigurement of her future career as a doctor.
- The novel’s opening chapter contains a prefigurement of the tragic ending.