prefigures in English

verb
1
be an early indication or version of (something).
the Hussite movement prefigured the Reformation
synonyms:foreshadowpresagebe a harbinger ofheraldforetoken
2
imagine beforehand.
she had prefigured her small pilgrimage as made in solitude
verb

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1. That prefigures an ‘Antitype’ of the same in the New Testament”.

2. 1 Eliot's witty 1918 truncation of an Arnoldian phrase prefigures the Hollow Men's predicament.

3. Eliot's witty 1918 truncation of an Arnoldian phrase prefigures the Hollow Men's predicament.

4. The use of red-cow ashes prefigures the cleansing through Jesus’ sacrifice. —Hebrews 9:13, 14.

5. Circe, then, prefigures Allecto as a symbol of the violent emotions which threaten to overcome reason and reduce man to the level of the beasts

6. Jungian Archetypes are defined as universal, archaic symbols and images that derive from the collective unconscious, as proposed by Carl Jung.They are the psychic counterpart of instinct.It is described as a kind of innate unspecific knowledge, derived from the sum total of human history, which prefigures and directs conscious behavior.