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antitype

[ an-ti-tahyp ]

noun

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


antitype

/ ˈæntɪˌtaɪp; ˌæntɪˈtɪpɪk /

noun

  1. 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
  2. an opposite type
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌԳپˈٲ辱, adverb
  • antitypic, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·پ·ٲ· [an-ti-, tip, -ik], t·ٲi· adjective
  • t·ٲi··ly adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of antitype1

1605–15; < Medieval Latin antitypus < Late Greek ԳíٲDz (impression) answering to a die. See anti-, type
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Example Sentences

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Even our blessed Lord, David’s antitype, “though He was a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.”

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The frescoes are all modern; in the tribune, are the deluge and the baptism of Christ,—the type and antitype.

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Of or pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type.

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The relation of the two verses is not that of the particular to the general, so much as that of image and object, of type and antitype.

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These scenes from the Old Testament were mingled with scenes from the New, the aim being to use one to illustrate the other—the antitype following the type in close succession.

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