antitype

noun 2

Definitions

noun

1

Something that is symbolized or represented by a type, such as Christ by the Paschal Lamb; the fulfillment of a type.

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.

2

A type that represents the opposite or antagonist of another type.

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.

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