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archetypal

[ahr-ki-tahy-puhl]

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adjective

of or having the nature of an archetype, or original model or prototype: an archetypal evil stepmother.

Sometimes, ar·che·typ·i·cal

[ahr-ki-tip-i-kuhl] , ar·che·typ·ic.

Origin:
archetyp(e) + -al¹

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They were personal and poetic, individual testimonies and archetypal situations from a culture that had long been marginalized.

If for no other reason, there'd an implicit value system there that only applies to some generic, archetypal student.

Not even oil, the archetypal industrial commodity, quite conforms to the super-cycle theory.

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They were personal and poetic, individual testimonies and archetypal situations from a culture that had long been marginalized.

If for no other reason, there'd an implicit value system there that only applies to some generic, archetypal student.

Not even oil, the archetypal industrial commodity, quite conforms to the super-cycle theory.

The mountain lacks only a few streaks of vivid red crayon above it to be every child's drawing of the archetypal volcano.

The former is concerned with long term archetypal interests of the individual and the species.

Apple, of course, is the archetypal emotional brand.

Ultimately, this is all about decommoditising the archetypal commodity.

These archetypal eerie animals are the only mammals that subsist solely on blood.

Mussolini, the archetypal fascist, never called himself one and considered himself a socialist his whole life.

Avatars tells the story of five archetypal video game characters making a journey of self-discovery.

Yet, as that hints, he is not quite the archetypal crusading press lord.

Vampires sheds light on why this archetypal image has haunted us for so long.

Science fiction and fantasy also make up the archetypal hacker canon.

The second group covers private entrepreneurs, their employees and archetypal small shopkeepers.

Vampires" sheds light on why this archetypal image has haunted us for so long.

Thompson portrayed archetypal mothers, from the loving family caretaker to the brutalizing harridan and mythical adulteress.

The group can make a small number of archetypal characters, and battle a small number of archetypal monsters.

Rothschild's image as the archetypal great teacher.

Place said the couple sought archetypal symbols that fused past and present experience.

They skillfully retold an archetypal messiah story with a dash of postmodern theory.

Graham spent six more decades cultivating a portraiture as theatricalized and archetypal as the characters she danced.

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World English Dictionary

archetypal or archetypical (ˌɑːkɪˈtaɪpəl, ˌɑːkɪˈtɪpɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	perfect or typical as a specimen of something
2.	being an original model or pattern or a prototype
3.	psychoanal of or relating to Jungian archetypes
4.	constantly recurring as a symbol or motif in literature, painting, etc

archetypical or archetypical

—*adj*

archetypally or archetypical

—*adv*

archetypically or archetypical

—*adv*

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archetypal

1640s, from L. archetypum (see archetype) + -al (1). Jungian sense is from 1923.

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"Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increated wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off."

-Ralph J. Cudworth

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