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antitype

[ an-ti-tahyp ]

noun

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


antitype

/ ˈæntɪˌtaɪp; ˌæntɪˈtɪpɪk /

noun

  1. 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
  2. an opposite type
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌantiˈtypically, adverb
  • antitypic, adjective
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Other Words From

  • an·ti·typ·ic [an-ti-, tip, -ik], anti·typi·cal adjective
  • anti·typi·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of antitype1

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

The great Antitype was a literal embodiment of the symbolic panoply of his lesser type.

This loathing had its physical antitype in his horror of the sight or description of bodily disease.

Type needs antitype: As night needs day, as shine needs shade, so good Needs evil: how were pity understood Unless by pain?

All things in the elementary world have their antitype in the celestial, and all celestial things have their corresponding ideas.

A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.

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