All 4 Uses

typify
in
The Scarlet Letter
(Edited)

In the array of funerals, too—whether for the apparel of the dead body, or to typify, by manifold emblematic devices of sable cloth and snowy lawn, the sorrow of the survivors—there was a frequent and characteristic demand for such labour as Hester Prynne could supply.
p. 77.1

typify = represent
They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime.
p. 121.3

typify = are characteristic
...until his knees trembled beneath him, as an act of penance. He kept vigils, likewise, night after night.... He thus typified the constant introspection wherewith he tortured, but could not purify himself.
p. 134.6

typified = demonstrated characteristics
So it ever is, whether thus typified or no, that an evil deed invests itself with the character of doom.
p. 197.3 *

typified = represented (with an outward symbol)

Definitions:

(1) (typify)
to be a typical example of; or to represent or be characteristic of
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)