antetype
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of antetype
Example Sentences
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We say in every other case the type must be continued until it is superseded by the antetype: as in the case of the passover, until our Lord was crucified.
From The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign 1847 edition by Bates, Joseph
They are the normal powers of the spiritual man, the antetype, the divine edition, of the powers of the natural man.
From The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man by Johnston, Charles
"Thou great antetype of my house," he said, while an electric brightness beamed from his upturned eyes.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Meding, Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar
On the gem are engraved the three symbols by which the Trinity—Osiris, Isis, and Horus; Father: Mother, and Child, the antetype of Humanity—became known and worshipped.
From The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension by Griffith, George Chetwynd
She is an antetype of a class to which the coming time will afford a field—the Spartan matron, brought by the culture of the age of books to intellectual consciousness and expansion.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret
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