Foreshadow vs Prefigure - What's the difference?
foreshadow | prefigure | Synonyms |
To presage, or suggest something in advance.
* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand ((often used in a Biblical context))
To predict or foresee
Prefigure is a synonym of foreshadow.
As verbs the difference between foreshadow and prefigure
is that foreshadow is to presage, or suggest something in advance while prefigure is to show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand (often used in a Biblical context.foreshadow
English
Verb
(en verb)- It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.