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  • n  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
  • n  an opposite or contrasting type

  • His antitype is the dithering Union general George McClellan, who seldom met a battle he couldn't find reason to avoid.
  • The work of Jusepe de Ribera, whose masterpieces are displayed in a new exhibition at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the very antitype of the great Matisse show 30 .
  • Dick Barton is, in fact, so much the repressed antitype of his Victorian forerunners that British Freudians expect him any day to "break out spectacularly, in a manner which .

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