2. Verb. (third-person singular of archetype) ¹
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Definition of Archetypes
1. archetype [n] - See also: archetype
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archetypes
Literary usage of Archetypes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First Added, I. An by John Locke (1828)
"Of Real and Fantastical Ideas. are conform- mentioned concerning ideas, other
consi- able to their derations belong to them, in reference to archetypes. ..."
2. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"... I mean such as have a foundation in nature; such as have a conformity with
the real being and existence of things, or with their archetypes. ..."
3. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1817)
"... Sceptre of ike Priests and Kings of Egypt—Hieroglyphic Tablet—Enumeration of
the archetypes—Curious Torso of an antient Statue —Triple ..."
4. The evidences of the genuineness of the Gospels by Andrews Norton (1847)
"... which should serve as archetypes for all subsequent transcribers, and the text
of which should alone be considered as the authorized text. ..."
5. Annals of Parisian Typography: Containing an Account of the Earliest by William Parr Greswell (1818)
"Thus our author, who wrote in poetic numbers: " RESPICIT archetypes auri vestigia
lustrans, " Et secum tacitus talia verba refert: " Quam belle pandit ..."
6. The World's New Fissures: Identities in Crisis by Vincent Cable (1994)
"archetypes In practice, left-right politics and the politics of identity coexist
and interact. Political ideas and movements are best understood in terms of ..."