- prefigurations
- n. act of imagining in advance, act of picturing mentally beforehand; advance depiction, early representation; archetype, prototypepre·fig·u·ra·tion || 'prɪË‚fɪgjÉ™'reɪʃn /-fɪgÉ™'r-
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