1624. Gataker, Transubst., 121. Christ might not as well compare the type with the truth; as the type with the countertype.
2. A parallel type in another sphere; a parallel.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), IX. XIV. iv. 170. Almost all the vernacular poetry of the middle ages has its Latin counter-type.
3. An opposite type; a logical opposite.
1880. E. C. Stedman, in Scribn. Mag., May, 121/2. Whitman is his countertype at the pole opposite from that of art.
