exemplary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
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.
Inflected forms:
form: more exemplary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exemplary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: examplary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
misspelling
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
pos: adj
examples: To answer these questions we must look more closely at the exemplary achievements of [David] Politzer, [David] Gross and [Frank] Wilcek. Here we will see the severe problems facing theorists in both the theoretical and phenomenological exploitation of QCD [quantum chromodynamics].
gloss: Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.
pos: adj
examples: Her behaviour was always exemplary.
The Archbishops and Bishops, next under the King, have the government of the Church and affairs ecclesiastical: be not, Sir, a mean to prefer any to those places for any by-respect; but only such as for their learning, gravity, and worth are deserving: and whose lives and doctrine are and ought to be exemplary.
For thus the Saviour of the world became humane, alluring, full of invitation and the ſweetneſſes of love, exemplary, humble and medicinal.
Lady Anne could not repress one involuntary exclamation of "what an inconvenient time Mr. Granard had chosen for his death!" but otherwise she behaved with exemplary propriety. She retired to her dressing-room, which was duly darkened, and there she sat, a white cambric handkerchief in one hand, and a bottle of salts in the other.
A maximum of 80 m.p.h. was quickly reached on the 1 in 264 down through Three Bridges and at this pace the riding was exemplary.
The film, with its exemplary sound and special effects, is such a ride that in some instances audiences might think their seats are shaking.
All the staff I interacted with were superb - helpful, polite, jolly and smart. I had regular ticket checks and helpful platform staff, and punctuality was exemplary.
gloss: Serving as a warning; monitory.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Providing an example or illustration.
pos: adj
examples: [T]ill he infect and poison that age, and spoil that time that he lives in by his exemplary sins, till he be pestis secularis, the plague of that age, peccator secularis, the proverbial sinner of that age, and so be a sinner of a hundred years, till in his actions he have been, or in his desires be, or in the foreknowledge of God would be a sinner of a hundred years, an inveterate, an incorrigible, an everlasting sinner, yet God comes not to curse him.
[...] I want to round off my consideration of poststructuralist geographies by pursuing origami as the exemplary art of spatial science.
Synonyms: exemplar
Derived words: counterexemplary
exemplarily
exemplariness
exemplarity
nonexemplary
unexemplary
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