prefigurement

From prefigure +‎ -ment.

prefigurement (countable and uncountable, plural prefigurements)

1. The act of prefiguring.

   Synonym: symbolism

2. Something that prefigures.

   Synonyms: hint, symbol, type

   • 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.

• adumbration
• foreshadowing
• prefiguration

• “prefigurement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.