adjective
Etymology
Origin of typal
Example Sentences
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A book of school life, intended not less for teachers than for the youthful maidens whose various typal forms act, love, hate, and suffer through its very natural and interesting pages.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various
We must, however, give a caution to our readers: 'Kunnle Delaney Hyde' and 'Carberry Ratcliff' are true as individuals of the South, but it would not be fair to regard them as typal characters.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various
The external pose and indefinite modification of the objects appear to correspond with the gradual mnemonic revival of the typal form, and they reciprocally stimulate and react on each other.
From Myth and Science An Essay by Tito Vignoli
While organisations less sound of constitutional morale, in place of sustaining their typal ideals, conform to these deteriorative methods, and degenerate from higher to lower-grade standards of structure and function.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
He addresses himself in a series of letters to the Joneses of Jonesville, each Jones addressed being a typal character and such as is of frequent occurrence in our midst.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various
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