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antitype

antitype noun: something that is symbolized or represented by a type, such as Christ by the Paschal Lamb; the fulfillment of a type.

Noun

antitype (plural antitypes)

  1. Something that is symbolized or represented by a type, such as Christ by the Paschal Lamb; the fulfillment of a type.
    • Types are generally worked out in Old Testament times through ancient Israel, and have their antitype fulfillment in New Testament times through Christ and His Church.2006, Timothy John Hayden, The Vision by the Tigris, →ISBN, page 85
    • Type is inferior to antitype, in that it is only a shadow. However the type has real existence. The type is always temporal; the antitype is eternal.2008, Paul Haffner, New Testament Theology, →ISBN, page 121
  2. A type that represents the opposite or antagonist of another type.
    • The figures of the confidence man and the painted woman were offered as antitypes of proper conduct in mid-nineteenth-century America.1982, Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830–1870, page xv
    • The historical effect of the persecution of witches was to restrict women's independent authority and to establish a strong antitype image of self-directed women.2010, Winnie Tomm, Bodied Mindfulness: Women’s Spirits, Bodies and Places, →ISBN

antitype meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Telugu

antitype in Tamil

மாதிரிப்படிவமுலம், நேர் எதிர்ப்பாமுகம்

antitype in Bengali

প্রতিরূপ, বিপরীত আদর্শ, কোনো কিছুর পরিপূর্ণ রূপ

antitype in Telugu

the antitype or thing meant in a parable or comparison
ఉపమేయము upamēyamu

Examples of antitype in a sentence

  • When we talk about the type meeting the antitype, we mean the antitype materialized, or became manifest, to fulfill the type.2012, Robert Johns, The Visions of Daniel the Hebrew Prophet, →ISBN, page 169:
  • Just as the erotic imagination projects its antitype through an act of repression, Shelley's rhetoric begins in a negative gesture, banishing the truth of the origin's textualization.2014, William A. Ulmer, Shelleyan Eros: The Rhetoric of Romantic Love, →ISBN, page 18:

Forms of antitype

pluralantitypes

Origin of antitype

From Ancient Greek ἀντίτυπος (antítupos).

Questions about antitype

What does antitype mean?
Antitype means something that is symbolized or represented by a type, such as Christ by the Paschal Lamb; the fulfillment of a type.
What is antitype in Tamil?
Antitype in Tamil is மாதிரிப்படிவமுலம், நேர் எதிர்ப்பாமுகம். See Antitype meaning in Tamil.
How do you use antitype in a sentence?
When we talk about the type meeting the antitype, we mean the antitype materialized, or became manifest, to fulfill the type.
What part of speech is antitype?
Antitype is a noun.
What is the plural of antitype?
The plural of antitype is antitypes.

Words near antitype in the dictionary

  1. antitussives
  2. antitwilight
  3. antitwilight arch
  4. antitwilight arches
  5. antitypal
  6. antitype
  7. antitypes
  8. antityphoid
  9. antityphoidal
  10. antityphus
  11. antitypic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antitype (page history and authors); antitype (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); antitype (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఉపమేయము (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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