antitype
something that is foreshadowed by a type or symbol, as a New Testament event prefigured in the Old Testament.
Origin of antitype
1Other words from antitype
- an·ti·typ·ic [an-ti-tip-ik], /ˌæn tɪˈtɪp ɪk/, an·ti·typ·i·cal, adjective
- an·ti·typ·i·cal·ly, adverb
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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.
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 BensonType 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. SpurgeonAll 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 RydbergA 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
/ (ˈæntɪˌtaɪp) /
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, adjective
- antitypically, adverb
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