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prefigure

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9 lettersPronunciation /pɹiːfɪɡjɚ/Part of speech verbSorted eefgiprruStarts with PEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. indicate, as with a sign or an omen

Word origin

From Middle English prefiguren, from Latin praefigurare, from figurare (“to shape, picture”).

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  • Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, all prefigure NRx urban futures.
  • Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.
  • In his influential commentary (the Moralia) Gregory the Great interpreted the protagonist typologically as a prefigure of Christ and of the Church persecuted.

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