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View definitions for prefigure

prefigure

verb as in hint

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The querulous, interconnected pamphlets printed in seventeenth-century Europe prefigure the culture of modern blogging.

We must see him through some lenses—we must prefigure his immortality.

The friendships of young girls prefigure the closer relations which will one day come in and dissolve their earlier intimacies.

He had tried feebly to prefigure this face, but never had his visioning approached the actual in its majestic, still beauty.

Let the fact of this great gift prefigure to us the august office of Woman.

May it faintly prefigure the unending blackness of that eternal night you have chosen as your future portion.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prefigure, such as: foreshadow, foretell, presage, typify, adumbrate, and imagine.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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