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Prefigure   Listen
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Prefigure  v. t.  (past & past part. prefigured; pres. part. prefiguring)  To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured."





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"Prefigure" Quotes from Famous Books



... through the air, and tear down the scaffolds which are soon to blaze with fiery symbols; for it is mourning and not joy that should cover the land; there should be silence, and not the echo of noisy gladness, in our streets; and the emblems with which we tell our nation's story and prefigure its future should be traced, not ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


Words linked to "Prefigure" :   bode, foretell, signal, bespeak, threaten, auspicate, indicate, foreshadow, presage, portend, prefiguration, forecast, betoken, ideate, foreshow, prefigurative, envisage


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