prefigureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /pɹiːfɪɡjɚ/

動詞

prefigure (third-person singular simple present prefigures, present participle prefiguring, simple past and past participle prefigured)

1. (often in a Biblical context) To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.
   • 2018 September 29, Roger Burrows, “On Neoreaction”, in The Sociological Review Magazine‎:

     Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, all prefigure NRx urban futures.

2. To predict or foresee.

同意語

• presage
• portend
• forereckon
• foreshadow
• announce

派生語

• prefigurement

名詞

prefigure (plural prefigures)

1. That which prefigures or appears to predict; a harbinger.
   • 2005, Leerom Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, page 293:

     Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.

   • 2012, C. S. Shapley, Studies in French Poetry of the Fifteenth Century, page 5:

     In his influential commentary (the Moralia) Gregory the Great interpreted the protagonist typologically as a prefigure of Christ and of the Church persecuted.