Word Finder - typify

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To embody, exemplify; to represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.

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His attitude typifies the attitude of young people today.

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To portray stereotypically.

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The angry captain typified all new sailors as incompetent.

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To serve as a typical or reference specimen of.

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The chosen specimen typifies plants belonging to that species.

The passage of this ice is indicated by the many drumlins that typify the landscape.

On Sabbath he dressed in white, wearing a four-fold garment to typify the four letters of the Divine Name.

His idealistic scheme of history, which makes religion the keynote of progress, and describes the function of each - Judaism to typify duty, Confucianism order, Mahommedanism justice, Buddhism patience, and Christianity love - does not account for the facts of the history enacted by the devotees.

Every single one of them can fall into the errors which so typify the Pharisees in the day of Jesus.

As stated in the article Artiodactyla, these animals typify the family Suidae, which, with the Hippopotamidae, constitute the section Suina, a group of equal rank with the Pecora.

The named Arabian baboon, P. hamadryas of North Africa and Arabia, dedicated by the ancient Egyptians to the god Thoth, and the South Arabian P. arabicus, typify Hamadryas; while the drill and mandrill of the west coast, P. leucophaeus and P. maimon, constitute the subgenus Maimon.

In essence, the advice in this section is about observing basic grammatical conventions that typify an academic writing style.

Their essays display the creative pluralism and passionate vitality which typify the best aspects of therapeutic work.

In the astral-theological system he is the planet Mars, while in ecclesiastical art the great lion-headed colossi serving as guardians to the temples and palaces seem to be a symbol of Nergal, just as the bull-headed colossi are probably intended to typify Ninib.

The duikers, or duikerboks (Cephalophus), of Africa, which range in size from a large hare to a fallow-deer, typify the subfamily Cephalophinae, characterized by the spike-like horns of the bucks, the elongated aperture of the face-glands, the naked muzzle, the relatively short tail, and the square-crowned upper molars; lateral hoofs being present.

In fact such actions were to typify Pope Linus ' whole episcopate.

Such impressive displays of man against nature perhaps typify the spirit of life in the Azores.

The connubial relations of the deities may thus be considered" to typify the mystical union of the two eternal principles, spirit and matter, for the production and reproduction of the universe."But whilst this privilege of divine worship was claimed for the consorts of all the gods, it is principally to Siva's consort, in one or other of her numerous forms, that adoration on an extensive scale came to be offered by a special sect of votaries, the Saktas.