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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. |
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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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