typification

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.

With me all was simplicity, patriotism, and whiteness—pure as the distinguished individual of whom they were a delicate typification.

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

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.

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.