Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Worthy of imitation; commendable.
- adjective Serving as a model.
- adjective Serving as an illustration; typical.
- adjective Serving as a warning; admonitory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving for a pattern or model for imitation; worthy of imitation.
- Such as may serve for a warning to others; such as may deter from wrong-doing: as, exemplary punishment.
- Serving as an example, whether good or bad; attracting imitation; influential.
- Exemplifying; serving as an illustration.
- noun An exemplar; a specimen; a copy, as of a book or writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.
- adjective Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable
- adjective Serving as a warning; monitory.
- adjective Illustrating as the proof of a thing.
- adjective (Law) See under
Damage .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Deserving
honour ,respect andadmiration . - adjective Of such high
quality that it should serve as anexample andsought to beimitated . - adjective
Ideal orperfect . - noun obsolete An
example , or typicalinstance ; anexemplar - noun obsolete A copy of a book or writing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective serving to warn
- adjective being or serving as an illustration of a type
- adjective worthy of imitation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I thanked him for his kind discourse; and he thanked me for my attention, which he called exemplary: and so my dear master handed me into the chariot; and we were carried home, both happy, and both pleased, thank God.
Pamela 2006
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I thanked him for his kind discourse; and he thanked me for my attention, which he called exemplary: and so my dear master handed me into the chariot; and we were carried home, both happy, and both pleased, thank God.
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725
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If you're a visual type you'll get a big kick out of the novel, since the descriptions of scenes are done in exemplary manner.
Genre Classics: Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks (Book Review) 2010
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He's done that in exemplary fashion, garnering three 1,000-yard seasons.
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If you're a visual type you'll get a big kick out of the novel, since the descriptions of scenes are done in exemplary manner.
Archive 2010-07-01 2010
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They also found that it would put down, in exemplary fashion much smaller, lighter game, and do it at amazing distances.
F&S Classic 2007
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Indeed, Japanese people have always behaved in exemplary fashion after earthquakes.
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Alexander became known as the exemplary commentator throughout later antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Alexander of Aphrodisias Frede, Dorothea 2009
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Each of the 2007 Fab Five's character showed up in exemplary fashion amid predraft scrutiny.
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They also found that it would put down, in exemplary fashion much smaller, lighter game, and do it at amazing distances.
BrainyBabe commented on the word exemplary
"A certain City gentleman, a man of exemplary character and simple tastes, modest, retiring, industrious, friend to animals, ex-scoutmaster, and good son to his mother, had absent-mindedly issued to the public an alarming amount of debenture scrip which, through some clerical inadvertence, was worth less than the paper it was printed on." -- ''Yashima, or, The Gorgeous West'' by R T Sherwood, 1931.
December 24, 2008