Definition of "prefigurement" []

• The act of prefiguring; prefiguration. (noun)
• That which is prefigured. (noun)

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• "Early church fathers taught that the 6 foot tall Temple candle was a kind of prefigurement for Christ."
• "It is the final loss to the geometrician, this believer in natural order as a prefigurement of the supernatural."
• "Lettice, with her unborn child, her youth haggard with apprehension and pain, the prefigurement of the agony of birth, gazed, dumb and bitter in her sacrifice, at the graceful, cold figure that, as irrevocably as herself, denied all that"