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  • noun Plural form of antitype.

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Examples

  • Wills 1994 covered a much broader array of 16 representative archtypes of leaders, as well as their antitypes.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • Wills 1994 covered a much broader array of 16 representative archtypes of leaders, as well as their antitypes.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • In proportion, therefore, as the soul is worthier than the body, so must these contests of the soul appeal to a stronger enthusiasm than their bodily antitypes.

    The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2007

  • Neither did the giraffe acquire its long neck by desiring to reach the foliage of the more lofty shrubs, and constantly stretching its neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh range of pasture over the same ground as their shorter-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them.

    On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type 2004

  • Subsequently a new branch springs from the same trunk, that is to say, new species are successively created, having for their antitypes the same lower organized species which had served as the antitypes for the former group, but which have survived the modified conditions which destroyed it.

    On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species 2004

  • In the long series of changes the earth has undergone, the process of peopling it with organic beings has been continually going on, and whenever any of the higher groups have become nearly or quite extinct, the lower forms which have better resisted the modified physical conditions have served as the antitypes on which to found the new races.

    On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species 2004

  • It is evidently possible that two or three distinct species may have had a common antitype, and that each of these may again have become the antitypes from which other closely allied species were created.

    On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species 2004

  • And then, when we have perfected the oblation, we invoke the Holy Spirit, that He may exhibit this sacrifice, both the bread the body of Christ, and the cup the blood of Christ, in order that the receivers of these antitypes [4875] may obtain remission of sins and life eternal.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Neither did the giraffe acquire its long neck by desiring to reach the foliage of the more lofty shrubs, and constantly stretching its neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual _at once secured a fresh range of pasture over the same ground as their shorter-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them_.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

  • Are not the crowning glories of these grand figures of Hebrew imagery in their pathetic antitypes?

    Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee

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