Definition of Antetype

1. an earlier form [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antetype

anteroposteriorly
anteroseptal myocardial infarction
anterosuperior
anteroventral
anteroventral thalamic nucleus
antes
antesepalous
antessive
antessive case
antestomach
antestomachs
antesystole
antetemple
antetemples
antetype (current term)
antetypes
anteversion
anteversions
antevert
anteverted
anteverting
anteverts
antevolate
anthacyclin
anthacyclins
anthanthrene
anthelia
anthelices
anthelion

Literary usage of Antetype

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Venetia by Benjamin Disraeli (1858)
"He who finds his antetype, enjoys a love perfect and enduring; ... He who loves an object that approaches his antetype, is proportionately happy, ..."

2. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"This was now withdrawn, the time approaching when Christ, the antetype of the Urim ... These tables also were withdrawn on the approach of their antetype. ..."

3. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"Thus it was meet, that when the lime drew nigh that the glorious antetype of the temple should appear, that the typical temple should have its glory ..."

4. The Doctrine of Modern Universalism: Considered in a Series of Essays by Jeremiah L. Lesslie (1836)
"well as the antetype, and shows Nicodemus that it was a spiritual birth and not a birth of the flesh, to which he alluded. It ia worthy of observation that ..."

5. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences by James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace (1916)
"... the several species came into existence, each one having had for its immediate antetype a clearly allied species existing at the time of its origin. ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Moses' law is to Stephen " lively oracles " because Stephen saw in Moses the complete antetype of Jesus, who expressed the full content of what Hebrews had ..."

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