antitype

[ an-ti-tahyp ]

/ ˈæn tɪˌtaɪp /

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noun

something that is foreshadowed by a type or symbol, as a New Testament event prefigured in the Old Testament.

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Origin of antitype

1605–15; <Medieval Latin antitypus<Late Greek antítypos (impression) answering to a die. See anti-, type

OTHER WORDS FROM antitype

an·ti·typ·ic

[an-ti-tip-ik], /ˌæn tɪˈtɪp ɪk/, an·ti·typ·i·cal, adjectivean·ti·typ·i·cal·ly, adverb

Words nearby antitype

antitrypsin, antitrypsin deficiency, antitryptic, antitussive, antitwilight arch, antitype, antiunion, antiutopia, antivax, antivaxxer, antivenin

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How to use antitype in a sentence

The great Antitype was a literal embodiment of the symbolic panoply of his lesser type.
Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851|Various
This loathing had its physical antitype in his horror of the sight or description of bodily disease.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge|Arthur Christopher Benson
Type needs antitype: As night needs day, as shine needs shade, so good Needs evil: how were pity understood Unless by pain?
Mysticism in English Literature|Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
All things in the elementary world have their antitype in the celestial, and all celestial things have their corresponding ideas.
The Magic of the Middle Ages|Viktor Rydberg

A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.
Companion to the Bible|E. P. Barrows

British Dictionary definitions for antitype

antitype

/ (ˈæntɪˌtaɪp) /

noun

a person or thing that is foreshadowed or represented by a type or symbol, esp a character or event in the New Testament prefigured in the Old Testament

an opposite type

Derived forms of antitype

antitypic (ˌæntɪˈtɪpɪk) or antitypical, adjectiveantitypically, adverb

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