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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ahr-ki-tahyp |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɑr kɪˌtaɪp |
Definition of archetype
Origin :- "original pattern from which copies are made," 1540s, from Latin archetypum, from Greek arkhetypon "pattern, model, figure on a seal," neuter of adjective arkhetypos "first-moulded," from arkhe- "first" (see archon) + typos "model, type, blow, mark of a blow" (see type). Jungian psychology sense of "pervasive idea or image from the collective unconscious" is from 1919.
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- With them we think of the artificial as the archetype; the earth-born as the erratic exception.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- In what relation does the archetype stand to the Creator himself?
- Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
- Such adaptations are, so to speak, grafted on the archetype.
- Extract from : « Form and Function » by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
- One program is the archetype for all the word processing that ever existed.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- Nay, more, it is not only our mirror but our archetype for every thing.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 » by Various
- For the Divine mind that planned the archetype also foreknew all its modifications.
- Extract from : « The Testimony of the Rocks » by Hugh Miller
- The reason of the beauty in nature is the archetype of the beauty of the (bodily) organism.
- Extract from : « Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 » by Plotinos (Plotinus)
- Our own personality supplies us with the archetype of which we are in search.
- Extract from : « British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Volume LIV » by Various
- Can an idea without an archetype be anything, but a chimera?
- Extract from : « Good Sense » by Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach
- It is the archetype and therefore all inclusive and omnipotential.
- Extract from : « The Mystery of Space » by Robert T. Browne
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