"exemplary" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /ɛɡ-/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-au-exemplary.ogg Forms: more exemplary [comparative], most exemplary [superlative]
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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₁em-}}, {{der|en|frm|exemplaire|t=exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen}} Middle French exemplaire (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen”), {{der|en|la|exemplāris|t=exemplary; a copy, facsimile}} Latin exemplāris (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile”), {{surf|en|example|-ary}} By surface analysis, example + -ary, {{doublet|en|exemplar}} Doublet of exemplar Head templates: {{en-adj}} exemplary (comparative more exemplary, superlative most exemplary)
  1. Deserving honour, respect and admiration. Translations (deserving honour, respect and admiration): نَمُوذَجِيّ (namūḏajiyy) (Arabic), nümunəvi (Azerbaijani), образцо́в (obrazcóv) (Bulgarian), exemplar (Catalan), příkladný (Czech), voorbeeldig (Dutch), esimerkillinen (Finnish), სანიმუშო (sanimušo) (Georgian), სამაგალითო (samagalito) (Georgian), vorbildlich (German), esimerkilliin (Ingrian), примерен (primeren) (Macedonian), wzorowy (Polish), образцо́вый (obrazcóvyj) (Russian), приме́рный (primérnyj) (Russian), досто́йный подража́ния (dostójnyj podražánija) (Russian), ejemplarizante (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-exemplary-en-adj-JfaGnVeC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 36 36 3 11 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 36 31 3 14 4 Disambiguation of 'deserving honour, respect and admiration': 95 2 2 1
  2. Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect. Translations (of such high quality as to serve as an example — see also ideal, perfect): نَمُوذَجِيّ (namūḏajiyy) (Arabic), مِثَالِيّ (miṯāliyy) (Arabic), nümunəvi (Azerbaijani), приме́рен (priméren) (Bulgarian), exemplar (Catalan), příkladný (Czech), voorbeeldig (Dutch), esimerkillinen (Finnish), malli- (Finnish), exemplaire (French), exemplar (Galician), მისაბაძი (misabaʒi) (Georgian), სანიმუშო (sanimušo) (Georgian), სამაგალითო (samagalito) (Georgian), vorbildlich (German), beispielhaft (German), patut dicontoh (Indonesian), esemplare (Italian), примерен (primeren) (Macedonian), przykładny (Polish), exemplar (Portuguese), приме́рный (primérnyj) (Russian), ejemplar (Spanish), exemplarisk (Swedish), föredömlig (Swedish), förebildlig (Swedish), mönstergill (Swedish), örnek (Turkish)
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  3. Serving as a warning; monitory. Synonyms (serving as a warning): admonitory
    Sense id: en-exemplary-en-adj--flCdfcI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 36 36 3 11 2 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 15 28 38 4 14 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 36 31 3 14 4 Disambiguation of 'serving as a warning': 2 4 92 1
  4. Providing an example or illustration.
    Sense id: en-exemplary-en-adj-9GD1m4uC
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (all senses): exemplar [adjective, obsolete] Derived forms: exemplarily
Disambiguation of 'all senses': 29 24 26 22

Noun

IPA: /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /ɛɡ-/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-au-exemplary.ogg Forms: exemplaries [plural]
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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₁em-}}, {{der|en|frm|exemplaire|t=exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen}} Middle French exemplaire (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen”), {{der|en|la|exemplāris|t=exemplary; a copy, facsimile}} Latin exemplāris (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile”), {{surf|en|example|-ary}} By surface analysis, example + -ary, {{doublet|en|exemplar}} Doublet of exemplar Head templates: {{en-noun}} exemplary (plural exemplaries)
  1. (obsolete) An example, or typical instance. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-exemplary-en-noun-SREgcON2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 36 36 3 11 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 36 31 3 14 4
  2. (obsolete) A copy of a book or a piece of writing. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-exemplary-en-noun-dsJc67-P
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: exemplar, paradigm Related terms: example, exemplar, exemplative, exemplifiable, exemplification, exemplificative, exemplify

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1984, Andrew Pickering, “Quantum Chromodynamics: A Gauge Theory of the Strong Interactions”, in Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 224:",
          "text": "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].",
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          "text": "Her behaviour was always exemplary.",
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          "ref": "1616, Francis Bacon, “A Copy of a Letter Conceived to the Written to the Late Duke of Buckingham when First He Became a Favourite to King James; […]”, in James Spedding, editor, The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon: […], volume VI, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1872, →OCLC, page 31:",
          "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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          "ref": "1678, Jeremy Taylor, “Ad[dendum to] Sect. I. Considerations upon the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary, and the Conception of the Holy Jesus”, in The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus, part I, London: […] E. Flesher, for R[ichard] Royston; published in Jeremy Taylor, William Cave, Antiquitates Christianiæ: Or, The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R. Royston, […], 1678, →OCLC, page 3:",
          "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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          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 14:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1959 March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 125:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club:",
          "text": "The film, with its exemplary sound and special effects, is such a ride that in some instances audiences might think their seats are shaking.",
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          "example",
          "example"
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          "word": "مِثَالِيّ"
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "16th–17th century, John Donne, Henry Alford, “Sermon CVII. Preached to the King, at Whitehall, the First Sunday in Lent.”, in The Works of John Donne, D.D., […], volume IV, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 461:",
          "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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          "ref": "1999, Marcus Doel, “Neighbourhood of Infinity – Spatial Science after Deleuze and Guattari”, in Poststructuralist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 161:",
          "text": "[...] I want to round off my consideration of poststructuralist geographies by pursuing origami as the exemplary art of spatial science.",
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          "ref": "1579, [William] Fulke, “The Third Booke of Maister Heskins Parleament Repealed by W. Fulke”, in D. Heskins, D. Sanders, and M. Rastel, Accounted (among Their Faction) Three Pillers and Archpatriarches of the Popish Synagogue, (Utter Enemies to the Truth of Christes Gospell, and All that Sincerely Professe the Same) Ouerthrowne, and Detected of the Seuerall Blasphemous Heresies, London: […] Henrie Middleton for George Bishop, →OCLC, page 374:",
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          "ref": "1631, John Weever, “The Loboryouse Iourney and Serche of Iohan Leylande, for Englandes Antiquitees, Given of Him as a New Yeares Gift to Kynge Henry the Eyghte in the Thirty Seuenth Yeere of His Reygne”, in Ancient Fvnerall Monvments within the Vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent, with the Dissolued Monasteries therein Contained: Their Founders, and what Eminent Persons Haue Beene in the Same Interred. …, London: […] Thomas Harper. […], →OCLC, page 689:",
          "text": "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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