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antitype
[ an-ti-tahyp ]
noun
- something that is foreshadowed by a type or symbol, as a New Testament event prefigured in the Old Testament.
antitype
/ ˈæntɪˌtaɪp; ˌæntɪˈtɪpɪk /
noun
- 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
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Derived Forms
- ˌantiˈtypically, adverb
- antitypic, adjective
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Other Words From
- an·ti·typ·ic [an-ti-, tip, -ik], anti·typi·cal adjective
- anti·typi·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The great Antitype was a literal embodiment of the symbolic panoply of his lesser type.
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This loathing had its physical antitype in his horror of the sight or description of bodily disease.
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Type needs antitype: As night needs day, as shine needs shade, so good Needs evil: how were pity understood Unless by pain?
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All things in the elementary world have their antitype in the celestial, and all celestial things have their corresponding ideas.
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A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.
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