Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
archetypically .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With reference to the archetype; originally. “Parts
archetypally distinct.”
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
archetypal way.
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Examples
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What Ace Anderson lacks is Rabbit's self-awareness that his life has become tragic in an archetypally American way.
Updike, John 2010
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Voltaire, the great 18th-century prophet of the Enlightenment, may have been archetypally French but he could certainly write fluent English and went so far as to Anglicise his first name, Francois-Marie, into Francis, a newly discovered cache of his letters shows.
Letters reveal Voltaire's exposure to English empiricism 2012
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With the mythology of its dorm-room provenance looming archetypally over the consciousness of almost every new student venture, we have in place now the much needed "success story" to inspire legions of young entrepreneurs.
Dave Lerner: The Coming Entrepreneurial Tidal Wave: University Entrepreneurship 2.0 Dave Lerner 2010
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She begins to keep a diary, but she is an archetypally unreliable narrator, and she has one particular secret she does not share even with her journal.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010
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The only book I've finished since my last reading update is The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken, which I thought was fun and archetypally Children's Lit, but was also disturbingly classist.
SeeLight: 2008
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She begins to keep a diary, but she is an archetypally unreliable narrator, and she has one particular secret she does not share even with her journal.
Archive 2010-04-01 Tim Stretton 2010
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With the mythology of its dorm-room provenance looming archetypally over the consciousness of almost every new student venture, we have in place now the much needed "success story" to inspire legions of young entrepreneurs.
Dave Lerner: The Coming Entrepreneurial Tidal Wave: University Entrepreneurship 2.0 2010
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The only book I've finished since my last reading update is The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken, which I thought was fun and archetypally Children's Lit, but was also disturbingly classist.
Super slammed 2008
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Mary is unmistakeably Jewish – indeed, for some Christians, archetypally Jewish; she is the exemplary Jewish person, the one who does what God meant the Jewish people to do.
Archbishop's book review - Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary 2009
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But that doesn't mean the similarities you're seeing aren't genuine, it's just that archetypally, such ideas inevitably arise in literature, religion and biography again and again.
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