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stereotype + archetype defs from the OED
archetype
(ˈɑːkɪtaɪp)
Also 7–8 archi-, 7–9 arch-.
[ad. L. archetypum, a. Gr. ἀρχέτυπον, f. ἀρχε- = ἀρχι- first + τύπος impress,
stamp, type.]
1.1 The original pattern or model from which copies are made; a prototype.
   [1599 Thynne Animadv. 42 The originall or fyrste archetypum of any thinge.]
   1605 Bacon Adv. Learn. I. 27 Let vs seeke the dignitie of knowledge in the
Arch-tipe or first plat-forme, which is in the attributes and acts of God.
   1690 Locke Hum. Underst. ii. xxx. (1695) 205 By real Ideas, I mean such as
have a Foundation in Nature; such as have a Conformity‥with their
Archetypes. 1795 Mason Ch. Music i. 54 There was little if any Music
printed‥that could serve as an Architype. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 17
The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies
which now meet. 1875 Scrivener Lect. Gk. Test. 9 These [manuscripts] were
made the archetypes of a host of others.
2.2 spec. a.2.a in Minting. A coin of standard weight, by which others are
adjusted. ? Obs.
b.2.b in Comp. Anat. An assumed ideal pattern of the fundamental structure of
each great division of organized beings, of which the various species are
considered as modifications.
   1849 Murchison Siluria xx. 477 Approaching to the vertebrated archetype.
   1854 Owen in Orr's Circ. Sc. Org. Nat. I. 169 The archetype vertebrate
skeleton.
c.2.c In the psychology of C. G. Jung: a pervasive idea, image, or symbol that
forms part of the collective unconscious. For the use of the term in Literary
Criticism see archetypal a. 2.
   1919 Jung in Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. X. 22 A factor determining the uniformity
and regularity of our apprehension‥I term the archetype, the primordial
image. 1923 H. G. Baynes tr. Jung's Psychol. Types 475 Since earliest times,
the inborn manner of acting has been called instinct, and for this manner of
psychic apprehension of the object I have proposed the term archetype.‥This
term embraces the same idea as is contained in ‘primordial image’.‥ The
archetype is a symbolical formula, which always begins to function whenever
there are no conscious ideas present.    Ibid. 507 These archetypes, whose
innermost nature is inaccessible to experience, represent the precipitate of
psychic functioning of the whole ancestral line.    1957 N. Frye Anat. of
Crit.ii. 99, I mean by an archetype a symbol which connects one poem with
another. 1962 A. M. Dry Psychol. of Jung iv. 92 For the most part it is the
archetypes, not the instincts, with which Jung is concerned.
stereotype, n. and a.
(ˈstɛriːəʊtaɪp, ˈstɪəriːəʊ-)
[a. F. stéréotype adj., f. Gr. στερεό-ς solid + τύπος type n.    In Fr. the
word has only the original adjectival use, and the subst. use = édition
stéréotype.]
b.A.3.b A preconceived and oversimplified idea of the characteristics which
typify a person, situation, etc.; an attitude based on such a preconception.
Also, a person who appears to conform closely to the idea of a type.
   1922 W. Lippman Public Opinion vi. 93 A stereotype may be so consistently
and authoritatively transmitted in each generation from parent to child that it
seems almost like a biological fact.    1935 G. W. Allport in C. Murchison
Handbk. Social Psychol. xvii. 809 Attitudes which result in gross
oversimplifications of experience and in prejudgements…are commonly called
biases, prejudices, or stereotypes.    1948 Krech & Crutchfield Theory & Probl.
Social Psychol. ii. v. 171 The concept of stereotype‥refers to two different
things. (1)‥a tendency for a given belief to be widespread in a society.‥ (2)‥a
tendency for a belief to be oversimplified in content and unresponsive to the
objective facts.    1960 T. Hughes Lupercal 42 Who lived at the top end of our
street Was a Mafeking stereotype, ageing.    1968 W. E. Lambert et al. in J. A.
Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. 487 American students of English-speaking
backgrounds who are in the process of studying the French language have a
generally negative set of stereotypes about the basic personality
characteristics of French-speaking people.    1974 Howard Jrnl. XIV. 102 The
stereotypes which society has of the offender, are quickly matched by
stereotypes which many offenders create of society.    1981 Church Times 23
Oct. 9/1 The neatly dressed unmarried lady (never without handbag)‥is
definitely not the narrow stereotype our media would have us think she is.
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