Tuesday word: Antitype

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Tuesday, Sep. 10, 2024

Antitype (noun)
an·ti·type [an-ti-tahyp]

noun
1. something that is foreshadowed by a type or symbol, as a new testament event prefigured in the Old Testament.

Other Words From
an·ti·typ·ic [an-ti-, tip, -ik], an?ti·typ?i·cal adjective
an ti·typ i·cal·ly adverb

Origin: 1605–15; < Medieval Latin antitypus < Late Greek antítypos (impression) answering to a die. See anti-, type

Example Sentences
The great Antitype was a literal embodiment of the symbolic panoply of his lesser type.
From Project Gutenberg

This loathing had its physical antitype in his horror of the sight or description of bodily disease.
From Project Gutenberg

Type needs antitype: As night needs day, as shine needs shade, so good Needs evil: how were pity understood Unless by pain?
From Project Gutenberg

All things in the elementary world have their antitype in the celestial, and all celestial things have their corresponding ideas.
From Project Gutenberg

A type is a symbol appointed by God to adumbrate something higher in the future, which is called the antitype.
From Project Gutenberg