architype

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architype (plural architypes)

  1. Obsolete form of archetype.
    • 1754, Henry-Saint-John Bolingbroke, The Philosophical Works (volume 1, page 188)
      [] an architype applicable to nothing that is really typified by it []
    • 1833, The Evangelist, volume 2, page 11:
      The Jews considered the empyral heavens as the architype of the temple of Jerusalem.