Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
archetypal .
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Examples
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This is the archetypic tale of the betrayed wife, and it lives on our collective feminine psyche.
Agapi Stassinopoulos: My One And Only: A Movie That Teaches Women How To Overcome Betrayal 2009
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Can I identify familiar even archetypic shapes within the visual poem?
Archive 2008-10-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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Can I identify familiar even archetypic shapes within the visual poem?
a.rawlings reads Donato Mancini Lemon Hound 2008
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But if the Soul of the individual contains the Reason-Principles of all that it traverses, once more all men have their [archetypic] existence There: and it is our doctrine that every soul contains all the Reason-Principles that exist in the Kosmos: since then the Kosmos contains the Reason-Principles not merely of man, but also of all individual living things, so must the
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Allied with this went Exemplarism, or the doctrine of archetypic ideas and the supposed knowledge of things in these Divine ideas.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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