English

Noun

prefigurement ‎(countable and uncountable, plural prefigurements)

1. The act of prefiguring; prefiguration.
2. That which is prefigured.
   • 1851 Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling

     Surely there was here, in his pious, ever-labouring, subtle mind, a precious truth, or prefigurement of truth ; and yet a fatal delusion withal.