from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun One that is foreshadowed by or identified with an earlier symbol or type, such as a figure in the New Testament who has a counterpart in the Old Testament.
noun An opposite or contrasting type.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun That which is prefigured or represented by a type, and therefore is correlative with it; particularly, in theology, that which in the gospel is foreshadowed by and answers to some person, character, action, institution, or event in the Old Testament.
noun In biology, same as antitrope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun Something that is symbolized or represented by a type.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun an opposite or contrasting type
noun a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol; especially a figure in the Old Testament having a counterpart in the New Testament
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Latin antitypus, from Late Greek antitupos, copy, antitype, from Greek, corresponding, representing : anti-, equal to, like; see anti– + tupos, print, impression.]
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From Ancient Greek ἀντίτυπος (antitupos).
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Examples
The Old Testament figure was called the type and the figure in the New Testament which paralleled it was called the antitype.
As in the first verse the earthly sanctuary was measured, so here its heavenly antitype is laid open, and the antitype above to the ark of the covenant in the
It also consists in Edwards 'extension of typology, the practice of interpreting things, persons, or events (the “type”) as symbols or prefigurations of future realities (the “antitype”).
Protestant divines had tended to restrict typology to figures, actions, and objects in the Old Testament which in their view shadowed forth Christ as their antitype.
The traditional depiction of Lilith from ancient Mesopotamia through medieval Kabbalah presents an antitype of desired human sexuality and family life.
Pursue that thought, and we might have got an interesting work; instead Wills gives the reader 16 profiles, each one meant to exemplify a particular type of leadership, and each contrasted with an "antitype."
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