prefiguration

IPA: prifɪgjɝˈeɪʃʌn

A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished.
Something that prefigures.

Examples of "prefiguration" in Sentences

It was the prefiguration, the signpost up ahead that Rome had already fallen.
Much like Pentecostalism is for Christianity, Islamism is a way station, a prefiguration of things to come.
And here, too, is a prefiguration of Barack Obama, who made his career by insisting that there are no red states and blue states, only the United States.
I did, however, share a plane with Aaron Eckhart, and even though he's not exactly a superstar (at least not yet), the hard-working actor proved a fitting prefiguration to my trip.
Benedict XVI continued, saying that from the cross, Jesus sees his Mother and the beloved apostle, a very important individual, but more important he is a prefiguration of all loved people, all the disciples and especially all priests.
From this, and from the many groans and sighs that are reported of the boy (who still struggled to keep reading, an activity feared and despised by his father, as it was by the owner of Frederick Douglass), we receive a prefiguration of the politician who declared in 1856, “I used to be a slave.”
The ginger-haired baby Elizabeth is mainly a squalling infant in the period of the narrative, which chiefly covers the years 1527 – 35, but in the figure of her sibling Mary, one is given a chilling prefiguration of the coming time when the bonfires of English heretics will really start to blaze in earnest.