Meaning of antitype | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that is symbolized or represented by a type, such as Christ by the Paschal Lamb; the fulfillment of a type.
2. A type that represents the opposite or antagonist of another type.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“When we talk⟳ about the type⟳ meeting the antitype, we mean⟳ the antitype materialized, or became manifest, to fulfill the type⟳. Generally, the meeting of the type⟳ and the antitype is marked by an event of theological significance.”

“The figures of the confidence man and the painted woman were offered as antitypes of proper conduct in mid-nineteenth-century America.”

“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.”

“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.”

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