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[ adjective ] representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned

Examples

"archetypal patterns" "she was the prototypal student activist"

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

Freeman , Cameron and McGhie , in their description of the disturbances of thinking found in chronic schizophrenic patients , say , in regard_to condensation , that `` the lack of adequate discrimination between the self and the environment , and the objects contained therein in itself is the prototypical condensation '' .

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