prefiguration

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And the “Laudamus Te,” with its insistent back-and-forth reiteration of the simplest consonant harmonies, sounds like a prefiguration of Virgil Thomson’s “Four Saints in Three Acts.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Since the early 20th century, Cycladic figures have had iconic power for contemporary artists, as an ancient prefiguration of abstraction.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

“I wouldn’t say it’s a prefiguration of Romanticism; it is already Romantic. Rather, he goes straight to contemporary music, straight to Alban Berg.”

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021

You might call it a prefiguration of the Bannon movie.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

At present I am content to regard the electric telegraph as the oracular response to that prefiguration.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas