typification

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The typification of the TV tot, Video Boy was raised by an electronic baby sitter.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the less obvious aspects of the book is the typification in Septimius's case of that endless struggle which is the lot of every man inspired by an ideal aim.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons

The Egyptians considered the viper as a typification of a bad wife, since they believed that during their union the female was in the habit of biting off her partner’s head.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Among the Egyptians, too, the chief deity, Osiris, was but another name for the sun, while his arch-enemy and destroyer, Typhon, was the typification of night, or darkness.

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

They made a very forceful typification of the new order of things and were rather magnificent in their defense of the old.

From Andrew the Glad by Daviess, Maria Thompson