prefigurement

It was an odd but passionate book - a prefigurement of "Jesus."

Desire is an omen of betrayal, a prefigurement of loss.

Antitype - that which preceded the type, and of which the type is the prefigurement or representation.

Again, in conventional Christianity, this is a prefigurement of Mary, also sometimes called "the Second Eve".

Shifting between violent reality and visionary dreams, the brief novel is as precise in its prefigurement as any classic prophecy.

It is tempting to see in the conflicts of the Victorian Age a prefigurement of the conflicts that beset our own.

"Tombstone" goes to great lengths to portray Doc as a prefigurement of a dissolute modern poet, a frontier-era Jim Morrison.

Suspended above the horde, under the gaze of the Empire's plutocrats, they felt their true value as soldiers, saw a prefigurement of their true reward.

And more than one has imposed Mann's "prefigurement" as a bludgeoning commentary, visibly Nazifying the proto-fascist aspects of the "Ring."

The cultural or dominion mandate in Genesis to "be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth" is prefigurement to other mandates in the Bible.

Attempting to rationalize his selling out with windy literary theories, the novelist asks, "Is Daisy Miller not a prefigurement of Donald Trump in drag?"

And in those first years, when you went into your mother's bedchamber and brought her into the world of the undead with you, it was but a prefigurement of your waking me.

A character who should emerge as a principled, far-sighted prefigurement of a civil-rights activist, burning to sacrifice herself for a larger cause, comes across as a cranky, not-so-Southern eccentric: likable, yes, but not especially impassioned or charismatic.