prefiguring
present participle ofprefigure
prefigure
verb[T]
formaluk/priːˈfɪɡ.ər/us/priːˈfɪɡ.jɚ/to show orsuggestthat something willhappenin thefuture:
Hispaintingsprefigure thedevelopmentofperspectiveinRenaissanceart.
Synonyms
bodeformal
foreshadowformal
portendformal
presageformal
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- inkling
- instinct
- intuit
- intuition
- intuitive
- presage
- prescience
- prescient
- prophecy
- prophesy
- second-guess
- the writing is on the wallidiom
- unreasoning
- visionary
Examplesofprefiguring
prefiguring
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The text offers a neutral catalogue of ancient archetypal structures,prefiguringmodern methods of classification by type used by scientific archaeology.
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This sort of typology served as aprefiguringor an anticipation of things to come.
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In the course of the rehearsals, a particular system of signification is thus put together,prefiguringthe spectators' response.
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The notion ofprefiguringis threaded through the literature, as is its darker double, the charge of unacknowledged borrowings and appropriations.
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His offer of music as a remedy for the encroachment of modern life locates the cure within the illness itself,prefiguringthe solutions of a later modernism.
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Here men have left a legacy of prestigious burial structuresprefiguringthe era of the great pyramids.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The story opens with a prophetic dream of two eagles fighting over a swan,prefiguringthe love triangle in the story.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A part of a program played before the title sequence, usually featuring a cliffhanger orprefiguringthe plot of the episode to follow.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Prefiguringforms of communism can be seen in communes and other collective living experiments.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Prefiguringthe acousmonium style of sound projection, hundreds of speakers were controlled by sound projectionists with a series of rotary telephone dials.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Over the following ten years, he participated in many training courses on mechanized warfare,prefiguringhis later role as a tank commander.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Snger's other theoretical innovations during this period were proposing means of using photons for interplanetary and interstellar spacecraft propulsionprefiguringthe concept of laser propulsion and the solar sail.
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