prefiguration

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What would novelists and filmmakers do without flashbacks, prefigurations and parallel subplots, this last technique immortalized in the catchphrase “Meanwhile, back at the ranch”?

From Washington Post • May 12, 2016

As always, Foucault, 51, ransacks history for prefigurations of contemporary power and knowledge.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cloister became like Aladdin's Cave whenever there were enough brethren assembled to make an audience for his luscious projects and prefigurations.

From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton

I rest a little upon omens and prefigurations; and am superstitious; as those must ever be who have lived upon the sea, and have risked their all upon the faith of its unsteady waves.

From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. by De Quincey, Thomas

The several prefigurations are not difficult to make out.

From A History of Nursery Rhymes by Green, Percy B.