Contextualizebeta

exemplarity

noun

Etymology

From exemplary + -ity.

  1. derived from exemplāris — “exemplary; a copy, facsimile”
  2. derived from exemplaire — “exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen”
  3. formed as exemplarity — “exemplary + -ity”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being exemplary.

    • the exemplarity of Christ's life
    • Therefore, the century-old tradition of exemplarity, in which great works of art are to serve as standards for production (since they offer norms and maintain tradition), is ruptured in the eighteenth century. In the age of innovation,[…]
    • And where is exemplarity in relation to this? Which is more pri- mordial? That framework is an essentially hierarchical and competing one inherited from traditional metaphysical foundationalism aiming to reach the summit or bottom of[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for exemplarity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA