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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



... considerable means. Often and often I go to the Bank of England and stand by the Royal Exchange and see those noble words, "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." George, those words are my text. Those words exemplify my work. "The earth is the Lord's." I therefore, George, give of my abundance to the Lord, meaning thereby the Lord's poor. I hate the Charity Organisation Society; but when I see a man or a woman or even a ...
— Hollyhock - A Spirit of Mischief • L. T. Meade
... teacher of his time. Yet it is one of the greatest ironies of fate that when he died there was not one of his pupils who was considered by the German authorities 'great' enough to take the place the Master had held. Henri Marteau, who was not his pupil, and did not even exemplify his style in playing, was chosen to succeed him! Henri Petri, a Vieuxtemps pupil who went to Joachim, played just as well when he came to him as when he left him. The same might be said of Willy Burmester, Hess, Kes and Halir, the latter one of those Bohemian ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens
... impossible to exemplify on paper actual teaching. Actual teaching, as all other practical matters, is in large measure determined by circumstances and conditions which are never twice the same. A large part of a teacher's skill lies in the sympathetic perception of these conditions ...
— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature • Ontario Ministry of Education
... be objected, however, that in taking the teaching profession to exemplify the duty of the State to assume responsibility for both individual and community, we have chosen a case which is exceptional rather than typical; that many, perhaps most, of the other vocations may be safely left to themselves, or, ...
— Cambridge Essays on Education • Various
... the recorded circumstance of Sir William Jones's invariable habit of reading his Cicero through every year, and exemplify the happy result for him, who, amidst the multiplicity of his authors, still continues in this way to be "the man ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli


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