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archetypal

[ ahr-ki-tahy-puhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of or having the nature of an archetype, or original model or prototype:
an archetypal evil stepmother.

Black Alice and Strix have origin stories that more closely resemble the archetypal comic heroes.

Marion Barry, the former four-time mayor of Washington D.C., notorious for being filmed smoking crack, is the archetypal survivor.

As Goggins puts it, “pictures about the archetypal not the stereotypical South.”

Christie, an archetypal tough guy happy warrior, at first dismissed accusations that the traffic jam was politically motivated.

Alex Jones is a representative Second Amendment enthusiast in the same way that Leonid Brezhnev is an archetypal progressive.

He had not wholly freed himself, however, from archetypal trammels.

Truly is Homer the primordial Hellenic seer, he who sees and sets forth the archetypal forms of the future of his race.

Yes, in the sight of God, like the archetypal ideas of the Platonists.

All things exist, according to his well-known doctrine of ideas, in an ideal or archetypal form, a pattern laid up in heaven.

This is a Generic Creation, creation according to genera or classes, like the "archetypal ideas" of Plato.

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