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antitype

Definitions

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.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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.

    A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

  • The Old Testament figure was called the type and the figure in the New Testament which paralleled it was called the antitype.

    A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975

  • 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

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The Baptist is Elias, as our Saviour was David; that is, the antitype, Jeremiah 30: 9; Malachi 4: 5; Hosea 3: 5, &c.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Noah's ark by water; and in like manner the antitype, which is the ordinance of consecration

    Once a Methodist; Now a Baptist. Why? 1861

  • 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”).

    Jonathan Edwards Wainwright, William 2009

  • 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.

    Jonathan Edwards Wainwright, William 2009

  • The traditional depiction of Lilith from ancient Mesopotamia through medieval Kabbalah presents an antitype of desired human sexuality and family life.

    Lilith. 2009

  • Could the relationship of Lee and Starbuck be an antitype of Baltar and Six in the first season?

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Great Merciful CRAP!! Battlestar Galactica Season Ender 2007

  • 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."

    Take Me To Your Leader 2008

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