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ideal type
noun
- a construct abstracted from experience in which individual elements are combined to form a whole that is conceptually independent of empirical factors or variables, but against which particular examples of the appropriate class found in life can be measured.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ideal type1
First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences
And why did Chopin regard Mozart as the ideal type, the poet par excellence?
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Hers was the ideal type of Japanese feature, so rarely seen amongst the common people, and considered so unlovely by Europeans.
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In the Old Testament the ideal type is the "just man," who conformed to ritual standards at all points.
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He was the ideal type of the feudal lord for whom no interest prevails against his own.
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About 1200 this ideal type gave place to the later "realistic" crucifix.
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