Typify Definition

tĭpə-fī
typified, typifies, typifying
verb
typified, typifies, typifying
To be a type or emblem of; symbolize; prefigure.
Webster's New World
To have or show the distinctive characteristics of; be typical of; exemplify.
Webster's New World

To portray stereotypically.

The angry captain typified all new sailors as incompetent.
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  • 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.

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

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

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