Dictionary

antitype en · NOUN

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντίτυπος (antítupos).

Meanings

1. Something that is symbolized or represented by a type, such as Christ by the Paschal Lamb; the fulfillment of a type.
   • 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. 2012, Robert Johns, The Visions of Daniel the Hebrew Prophet, →ISBN, page 169:
   • 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 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:
   • 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:
   • 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

Relateds

archetype · typology · type

Translations (3)

pt antítipo (something that is symbolized or represented by a type) · el αντίτυπος (something that is symbolized or represented by a type) · pl antytyp (something that is symbolized or represented by a type)