stereotype
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛ.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/
ipa: /ˈstɪə.ɹi.əˌtaɪp/
ipa: /ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtaɪp/
note: Canadian raising
ipa: [ˈstɛɹ.i.əˌtʌɪp]
ipa: /ˈstɪɹ.i.əˌtaɪp/
note: Canadian raising
ipa: [ˈstɪɹ.i.əˌtʌɪp]
ipa: /ˌstiɹ.joˈtaɪp/
Etymology: Borrowed from French stéréotype (adjective), equivalent to stereo- + type. Printing sense is from 1817; the “conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image” sense is recorded from 1922 in Walter Lippmann’s book Public Opinion.
Senses: examples: text: At the present Epoch (1800), the art of Printing is become rather retrograde; or we should not hear so much of Stereotype editions. Surely the use and very principle of the invention of Printing, is to have the types moveable!
ref: 1817 December, G. O. P. T., “A Chronological Table, Shewing that All the Remarkable Events Recorded in History Concur at the Distance of Five, or Ten, or Thirty Generations of Men”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, London: […] Nichols, Son, and Bentley, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 500:
text: Yet the whole of this mighty preparation ended in the production of a small stereotype edition of the New Testament, without the usual distinction of verses, and nearly without notes.
ref: 1820, J[ohn] M[ilner], “The Catholic Bible Society”, in Supplementary Memoirs of English Catholics, Addressed to Charles Butler, Esq. […], London: […] Keating and Brown, […] sold also by Murray, […], →OCLC, page 243:
text: The first edition of this work, (the constant and increasing sale of which proves the high esteem in which it is deservedly held), begun in 1788, and published in London, in numbers, consisted of 5,000 copies; the second in 1805, of 2,000; the third in 1810, of 2,000; the fourth in 1812, of 3,000; and the new edition is stereotype, the largest work ever submitted to that process.
ref: 1827 June 21, Philadelphia Recorder, quotee, “[Thomas] Scott’s Family Bible, Boston Stereotype Edition, […]”, in Litchfield County Post, volume II, number 1 (53 overall), Litchfield, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [3], column 5:
qualifier: literal
glosses: Of an edition: printed in stereotype.
examples: text: It is an ingenious expression which I owe to you, sir, that the manners of the East are as it were stereotype. Ahhough I do not conceive that they are quite so strongly marked, yet, to make my idea understood, I would say that they are like the last impressions taken from a copper-plate engraving, where the whole of the subject to be represented is made out, although parts of it from much use have been obliterated.
ref: 1824 (indicated as 1823 December 1), Peregrine Persic [pseudonym; James Justinian Morier], “Introductory Epistle, to the Rev. Dr. Fundgruben, […]”, in The Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page xi:
text: Cartels by the hundred: which he, since the Constitution must be made first, and his time is precious, answers now always with a kind of stereotype formula: ‘Monsieur, you are put upon my List; but I warn you that it is long, and I grant no preferences.’
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Sword in Hand”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book III (The Tuileries), page 116:
text: This wonderful passage, with its piercing tenderness and solemn eloquence, is—one shrinks from saying it—a veritable mosaic of stereotype ideas, characteristic of this particular kind of ‘epilogus,’ or [‘]consolatio,’ as a few illustrations out of many will show.
ref: 1899 May, Alfred Gudeman, “[Henry] Furneaux’s Agricola of Tacitus”, in The Classical Review, volume XIII, number CXIV, London: David Nutt, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 216, columns 1–2:
text: The posture of the body is very straight with the preserved arm hanging straight down at the side. The body is of the well-known athletic type, that, by no means, is stereotype in its proportions. In the Old Kingdom for example, the shoulders are straighter and normally so broad that the arms hanging down do not even touch the body.
ref: 1990, Ingegerd Lindblad, “Two Standing Tomb-statuettes from the New Kingdom”, in Eva Rystedt, editor, Bulletin, volume 25, Stockholm: Medelhavsmuseet, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:
glosses: Synonym of stereotyped.
synonyms: word: stereotyped