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Exemplary   /ɪgzˈɛmpləri/   Listen
adjective
Exemplary  adj.  
1.
Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct. "(Bishops') lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary."
2.
Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
3.
Illustrating as the proof of a thing.
Exemplary damages. (Law) See under Damage.


noun
Exemplary  n.  An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Exemplary" Quotes from Famous Books



... outside, and flinging it open flew with his bare hands at the throat of the first man he saw before him. They rolled over together. Byrne's hazy intention was to break through, to fly up the mountain path, and come back presently with Gonzales' men to exact an exemplary vengeance. He fought furiously till a tree, a house, a mountain, seemed to crash down upon his head—and ...
— Within the Tides • Joseph Conrad
... sacrifices her legitimate joy in order to go and mingle her tears with those of her friend and mitigate her sorrow or share it with her. I understand and esteem the woman who, impressed by the superior wisdom and exemplary piety of another woman, goes to her for advice, devoting with pleasure her leisure hours to that end. I see in all these circumstances a motive that is serious, honorable, praiseworthy, and capable of acting upon a noble heart and an elevated intelligence. But, among the visits made by worldly women; ...
— Serious Hours of a Young Lady • Charles Sainte-Foi
... have been most exemplary for the past several seasons," he remarked. "He is a good man, but he lacks the proper spirit of sacrifice." He ...
— The Players • Everett B. Cole
... were concealed and masked from the Queens knowledge (whom I hope God hath crowned with Eternal Glory) for she was transported with fervent and wonderful zeal, nay, almost Divine desires for the Salvation and preservation of these people, which things so exemplary as these we having seen with our eyes, and felt with our hands, ...
— A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies • Bartolome de las Casas
... quality, were cheerfully preferred to similar articles imported from Britain. That wool might not be wanting, they entered into resolutions to abstain from eating lambs. Foreign elegancies were laid aside. The women were as exemplary as the men in various instances of self-denial. With great readiness they refused every article of decoration for their persons and luxuries for their tables. These restrictions, which the colonists had voluntarily ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various


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