The act of representing, suggesting, or imagining something in advance.
The artist's early sketches were a prefiguration of his later masterpieces.
An event or action that foreshadows or anticipates a future event.
The economic policies of the 1990s were seen as a prefiguration of the financial crisis that followed.
In Christian theology, a person, event, or statement in the Old Testament regarded as foreshadowing or symbolically anticipating Christ or a New Testament event.
The Passover lamb is often interpreted as a prefiguration of Christ's sacrificial death.