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"text": "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.",
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"text": "For thus the Saviour of the world became humane, alluring, full of invitation and the ſweetneſſes of love, exemplary, humble and medicinal.",
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"text": "[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.",
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"A copy of a book or a piece of writing."
],
"links": [
[
"copy",
"copy#Noun"
],
[
"book",
"book#Noun"
],
[
"writing",
"writing#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A copy of a book or a piece of writing."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɛɡ-/",
"tags": [
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-exemplary.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/En-au-exemplary.ogg/En-au-exemplary.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/En-au-exemplary.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "exemplar"
},
{
"word": "paradigm"
}
],
"word": "exemplary"
}
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