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exemplary

adj
/ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/US

Etymology

From Middle French exemplaire (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen”), from Latin exemplāris (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile”), from exemplum (“an example; a sample; a copy or transcript”). By surface analysis, example + -ary. Doublet of exemplar. First use as a noun appears c. 1425, as an adjective, c. 1507.

  1. derived from exemplāris — “exemplary; a copy, facsimile”
  2. derived from exemplaire — “exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen”

Definitions

  1. Deserving honour, respect and admiration.

  2. Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated

    Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.

    • Her behaviour was always exemplary.
    • For thus the Saviour of the world became humane, alluring, full of invitation and the ſweetneſſes of love, exemplary, humble and medicinal.

  3. Serving as a warning

    Serving as a warning; monitory.

    • exemplary justice, exemplary punishment, exemplary damages
    • For certain torts exemplary damages may be awarded to punish the defendant for cynically committing them and other remedies are available which are purely restitutionary in effect, notably restitutionary damages and money had and received.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Providing an example or illustration.

      • [...] I want to round off my consideration of poststructuralist geographies by pursuing origami as the exemplary art of spatial science.

    2. An example, or typical instance.

    3. A copy of a book or a piece of writing.

      • Farther, more part of the exemplaries, curiouſly ſought by me, and fortunately found in ſundry places of this your dominion, hath bene emprinted in Germany, and now be in the preſſes chefley of Frobenus, [...]

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Derived

counterexemplary, exemplarily, exemplariness, exemplarity, nonexemplary, unexemplary

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exemplary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at exemplary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at exemplary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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