Literary notes about Type (AI summary)
In literature, "type" functions as a multifaceted term that encapsulates both symbolic representation and precise categorization. It is used to denote archetypal figures or events, as when a prophet foretells future calamities by invoking the image of broken pottery ([1]). At the same time, the word describes characteristic traits of individuals—labeling someone as an “executive type” ([2]) or identifying a person as embodying noble qualities ([3]). Beyond characterizing people, "type" also appears in technical and scientific contexts to denote specific classifications, such as in the description of printed characters ([4]) or anatomical categories ([5]). Even in modern usage, commands in digital environments invoke the term literally, as seen when directions call for a computer command to be typed ([6]). This versatility demonstrates how "type" serves both as a symbolic exemplar and a tool for systematic categorization in a wide array of literary and scholarly discourses.
- Jeremias Chapter 19 Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel, the prophet foresheweth the desolation of the Jews for their sins.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - He’s known the Lani all his life, and he is an executive type.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone - Look at the Comte de la Fere, a type of nobility, a flower of chivalry.
— from Twenty years after by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - II.79 Fournier, who was a type-founder and wood-engraver, imagined that the moveable types with which the Speculum was printed were of wood.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - In their type of cranium they occupy a position intermediate between the dolichocephalic Pallis and the sub-brachy cephalic Canarese classes.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston - You can type the above as: $ cd $ touch myfile or as: $ cd; touch myfile
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
