The war was seen later as a prefiguration of World War II. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Civil War] Reference
It was the prefiguration, the signpost up ahead that Rome had already fallen. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future] Reference
In this scheme the Visconti of Milan are implicitly a prefiguration of Bonaparte. From Wordnik.com. [Civic Humanism] Reference
Much like Pentecostalism is for Christianity, Islamism is a way station, a prefiguration of things to come. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future] Reference
A man could see for himself the validity of a forewarning, the eventual result of a prefiguration, the final course of a trend. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
The idea we held was prefiguration: we thought we should live now as if the conditions we hoped to bring about were already in place. From Wordnik.com. [Suddenly June] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [‘On Whitman’: The Real American] Reference
Later she felt ashamed that she had resorted to borrowed words — that she had used those of Simone Weil, whose life she had come to see as a prefiguration of her own. From Wordnik.com. [A Theology of Anorexia] Reference
Buddhism is but vaporous ideality and bewildering prefiguration. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11] Reference
O, Divine Mysteries, that are the prefiguration of eternal life!. From Wordnik.com. [My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God] Reference
By that trick of lighting a prefiguration of age fell across her. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Peer]
Is prefiguration an outmoded concept or more important than ever?. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference
Solomon in his glory was a fit anticipation and prefiguration of the. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,] Reference
"This prefiguration of the Word by Noah is certainly curious," remarked. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
Hesperus's madness, Frye finds in the play a prefiguration of Freudian themes. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
The book of Ezekiel gives us a moving prefiguration of the general resurrection. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Gaza could have been a prefiguration of a future self-determined Palestinian state. From Wordnik.com. [Cobb] Reference
Assistance a la prefiguration d'une structure de formation au Ministere des Travaux Publics. From Wordnik.com. [Formae Mentis NGO™] Reference
Wrapped in his ardent prefiguration of events, the captain posted towards the house with his head down. From Wordnik.com. [The Ebb-Tide] Reference
At present I am content to regard the electric telegraph as the oracular response to that prefiguration. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiographical Sketches] Reference
If we wish to understand the power of Christ's blood, we should go back to the ancient account of its prefiguration in Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Canterbury Tales by Taylor Marshall] Reference
That which makes the union of the sexes something almost divine is that it is the prefiguration, the symbol, of the union of souls. From Wordnik.com. [Life of St. Francis of Assisi] Reference
Later, the descendents of Agag gave birth to Haman - a prefiguration of the Antichrist of antichrists who will rule during the Great Tribulation. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
A current example, and prefiguration of this, is the popularity of what is called consignment, or thrift shops. From Wordnik.com. [Anarkismo.net] Reference
13 Hume's idea was remarkably accurate both as a description of consciousness and as a prefiguration of how movies work. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference
22: 4, of which Simeon's sight of the Saviour was a prefiguration (Lu. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
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