The word 'prefigure' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that has been suggested or indicated beforehand, usually as an indication or a foreshadowing of something that is to come. Example sentence: His early ambitions prefigured his future accomplishments.
"The striking thing about them, as Andrew Motion says, is that she really does seem to have been a poet, rather than just writing lines that would prefigure the novels she was to write," said Clapp.
The first poem of Iain's that I remember from high school was boldly titled "Memoirs" and written in the voice of a retired soldier – who may prefigure Zakalwe, the guilt-haunted hero of Use of Weapons.
The metal's price movements are widely believed to prefigure shifts in the world economy.In this section Red bull Pensions, Ponzis and pyramids The shadow of recession Swiss miss Rogue hormones Pershing missile Take that, Congress Bringing down the house Correction: Brian Moynihan ReprintsThe theory looks compelling.
Obviously, the English and American revolutions of 1688 and 1776 prefigure these changes, but it was the more universalist French Revolution that placed individualism and rationality squarely at the centre of human concerns.
The four prefigure the fate of a hero and the society he brings into being.
These proto-Romantic treatises privilege the natural and the authentic over the artificial, and they prefigure Burke's defense of the integrity of native and traditional culture in India during the impeachment proceedings he initiated in 1786 against Warren Hastings, governor-general of India.
Rodgers toured widely in the South (also playing the vaudeville circuit) and, seeking a dry climate for his health, eventually settled in Texas, with which he became intimately associated, borrowing the aura of the cowboy to put the "country" in country and western and to prefigure "Singing Cowboy" Gene Autry.
Some of Motonobu's paintings, originally done on sliding panels, were subsequently mounted on hanging scrolls; these include the important "49 Landscapes with Flowers and Birds" (also in the Reiun-in monastery), which prefigure the monumental decorative compositions of the later Kanō artists, Eitoku (1543 1590) and Sanraku (1559 1635).
It is difficult to identify any particular events in his childhood that might prefigure his turn onto the path of a professional revolutionary.
The legend that was created out of virgin soil was taken to prefigure the virgin birth of the second (i.e., Jesus); while the story that the soil in question was taken from the site of the future Temple was transformed into the claim that had been molded out of the dust of Calvary.
He did, however, prefigure important developments in modern theory by arguing that the quality of worker skill was the central determinant of economic progress.
