different between prefiguration vs prefigurative

English

Alternative forms

• præfiguration (archaic)

Etymology

From Late Latin praefigurationem, nominative form of praefiguratio.

Noun

prefiguration (countable and uncountable, plural prefigurations)

1. A vague representation or suggestion of something before it has happened or been accomplished.
   • 1628, Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth

     Those ceremonies were prefigurations of Christ to come : these traditions are defigurations and deformations of Christ exhibited

2. Something that prefigures.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “prefiguration”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

English

Adjective

prefigurative (comparative more prefigurative, superlative most prefigurative)

1. Showing by prefiguration.
   • 1818, Thomas Hartwell Horne, Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures

     The whole of this process seems to be typical or prefigurative of the grand atonement to be made for the sins of the whole world by Jesus Christ