antitypic

adjective

Meaning

Serving as a fulfillment or realization of a previous symbol, prophecy, or historical foreshadowing.

Examples

  • The New Testament writers often presented the life of Christ as the antitypic fulfillment of Old Testament law.
  • Historians analyzed the revolutionary movement as an antitypic response to the failures of the previous regime.

Synonyms: corresponding, complementary, fulfilling, correlative