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Exemplify   /ɪgzˈɛmpləfˌaɪ/   Listen
verb
Exemplify  v. t.  (past & past part. exemplified; pres. part. exemplifying)  
1.
To show or illustrate by example. "He did but... exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up."
2.
To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record.
3.
To prove or show by an attested copy.





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"Exemplify" Quotes from Famous Books



... struck with the idle curiosity, and, at the same time, the courtesy and kindness of the populace of Marseilles, and I meant to exemplify it by recording how Miss S——— and I attracted their notice, and became the centre of a crowd of at least fifty of them while doing no more remarkable thing than settling with a cab-driver. But really this pitch and swell is getting too bad, and I shall go to bed, as the best ...
— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... have not room to exemplify the skill with which Puseyism is tracked and detected. The Irish scenes are of an excellence that has not been surpassed since the best days ...
— Cat and Dog - Memoirs of Puss and the Captain • Julia Charlotte Maitland
... accounting for this, we shall proceed in our usual manner to exemplify it in the conduct of the lad above mentioned, who submitted to the persuasions of Mr Dowling, and promised once more to admit Jones into his side-saddle; but insisted on first giving the poor creatures a good bait, saying, they ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding
... Shakspeare's behalf, it would not have been worth while to exemplify so unambiguous a phrase. The like remark may also be extended to the next ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 • Various
... deplored that our Anti-Slavery Society confines itself so much to protests, and what it calls "the moral principle." No people of the world has done more for the liberties of Africa than the Society of Friends in England, and no people more admirably exemplify in their conduct the humane and pacific morals of Christianity. But when the Founder of our religion resisted his enemies by the remonstrance, "Why strikest thou me?" something more was meant than a protest. We have had lately a triste example of ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson


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