noun
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an opposite type
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a corresponding type
Etymology
Origin of countertype
Example Sentences
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I will call this countertype “the believer,” after Eggers’s influential magazine of the same name, though Wallace is arguably the architect of this post-ironic ethos.
From Salon
Their primary oppositional strategy is to imagine a characterological countertype to the incredulous ironist.
From Salon
THE great dimensions of this house, and its massive strength and solidity are no bad emblems of the old sturdiness, wealth, and pride of the Aragonese nobility, whose Plateresque architecture "differed" as Mr. O'Shea justly remarks, "in many points from its countertype the Seville Moro-Italian, or strictly Andalusian style, applied to private dwellings."
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