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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.)





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"Exemplary" Quotes from Famous Books



... looking particularly to the better protection of American missionaries in the Empire. The condemned murderer of the eminent missionary Dr. Justin W. Parsons has not yet been executed, although this Government has repeatedly demanded that exemplary justice be done. ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 8: Chester A. Arthur • James D. Richardson
... I may add (and the reader should ponder upon this, as a profound picture of human life), that Gambouge, since he had grown rich, grew likewise abundantly moral. He was a most exemplary father. He fed the poor, and was loved by them. He scorned a base action. And I have no doubt that Mr. Thurtell, or the late lamented Mr. Greenacre, in similar circumstances, would have acted like the ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray
... Deeside hamlet, Liverpool was tameness itself. Now and then, as in 1745, the sailor element rose in arms, demanding who was master; but as a rule it suffered the gang, if not gladly, at least with exemplary patience. Homing seamen who desired to evade the press in that city—and they were many—fled ashore from their ships at Highlake, a spot so well adapted to their purpose that it required "strict care to catch them." From Highlake they made ...
— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson
... you only as a dear, dear friend. Yes, and she used certainly to hope that nothing she had said or done could have led you to believe she had even for a moment considered such a thing. Oh, she did it well, did Stella, and endured these frequent griefs and surprises with, I must protest, quite exemplary patience. In a phrase, she was the most adorable combination of the prevaricator, the jilt and the ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al
... am a French subject. I have been submitted to violence, outrage, indignity! I have been seized on foreign soil, and brought here by force against all international law! I shall claim exemplary damages! ...
— Jimgrim and Allah's Peace • Talbot Mundy


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