noun
- plural of prefigurement; things that foreshadow or suggest something in advance; early indications or signs of what is to come
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The dark clouds were prefigurements of the storm that arrived later that evening.
- Medieval scholars saw Old Testament events as prefigurements of New Testament truths.
- The early warning signs were prefigurements of the economic crisis to follow.
- Her childhood drawings contained prefigurements of her later artistic style.
- The pilot's comments were prefigurements of the difficulties the team would face.
- These small tremors are prefigurements of a larger earthquake, according to seismologists.