The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typify \Typ"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Typified; p. pr. & vb. n. Typifying.] [Type + -fy.]
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To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.
Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness.
--Sir T. Browne. To embody the essential or salient characteristics of; to be the type of; as, the genus Rosa typifies the family Rosace[ae], which in turn typifies the series Rosales.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of typify English)
Usage examples of "typifying".
This is, in fact, an encounter between light, typifying levity, and the density of the material world, typifying gravity.
Only this: some people are a lot harder than others, with Marilee and me typifying those others, to satisfy.