Prefigures

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Definitions and meanings of "Prefigures"

What do we mean by prefigures?

To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand (often used in a Biblical context).

To predict or foresee.

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The word "prefigures" in example sentences

Zaehner's term prefigures semiotic and postmodern concerns to deconstruct words like 'God' and what they connote for various individuals and groups-e.g. women, visible, invisible as well as outspoken and silent minorities. ❋ Earthpages.ca (2010)

Zaehner's term prefigures semiotic and postmodern concerns to 'deconstruct' words like 'God' and what they connote for various individuals and groups-e.g. women, visible, invisible as well as outspoken and silent minorities. earthpages: Review - 2012: Mayan Prophecy and the Shift of the Ages (DVD) « Earthpages. org - ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anyway, of course it 'prefigures' things that come in twos. ❋ Brian Clegg (2009)

In blessing the wounds with a kiss, the Christ Child embraces Adam's martyrdom and "prefigures" his own Passion as an adult. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Morris, in his biography of Bierce, calls this "an article whose revolutionary treatment of warfare as a hallucinatory and absurd experience prefigures much of modern literature's attitude toward the subject." ❋ Unknown (2010)

So although this pan-panism serves the plot and prefigures the species-specific occupations shown in the Ape pre/sequels, real-life chances of such coordination, even with augmentation, are frankly nil. ❋ Ph.D. Athena Andreadis (2011)

Augustine continues, in the The City of God: “He also prefigures the Jews by whom Christ was slain, the Shepherd of the flock of men, who was foreshadowed in Abel, the shepherd of the flock of sheep.” ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

In 2005 Liman – of no fixed identity as a director – also made Mr And Mrs Smith, about married top-secret assassins, a premise that prefigures Fair Game so neatly it almost neuters it at the conceptual level before a single shot of the latter is in the can. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He also prefigures the Jews by whom Christ was slain. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

It is a silence that prefigures the end of the resistance in District 2, in Sirte itself and of its last pocket of followers of Abu Muammar, which might happen in a day or in 10 days, but cannot be avoided. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I also find it amusing that the blurb on the front prefigures another bad library book, “The Secret”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Old ballerina's disintegration prefigures young ballerina's disintegration. ❋ Peter Schwartz (2011)

The extermination of European Jews prefigures more recent mass killings—in Cambodia, in Bosnia, in Rwanda—perpetrated not by foreigners but by neighbors. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

Still, Bogart is masterfulas always, and the final courtroom speech prefigures later cinema courtroom barnstorming including Compulsion, A Time To Kill, and dozens more. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She is excited too, though, of course, by the sudden flash of orange on the corner of a painting made in Brittany that prefigures his gorgeous, haunted Tahitian palette, or by the insistent presence, on a table, of Gauguin's own beer mug, a sturdy Scandinavian vessel that looks like it holds three pints, and which features in a curious and estranging portrait of his sleeping daughter. ❋ Tim Adams (2010)

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