Exemplary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exemplary \Ex"em*pla*ry\, n.
     An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing. [Obs.]
     --Donne.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Exemplary \Ex"em*pla*ry\, a. [L. exemplaris, fr. exemplar: cf.
     F. exemplaire. See {Exemplar}.]
     1. Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for
        imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary
        conduct.
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              [Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be
              exemplary.                            --Bacon.
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     2. Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice,
        punishment, or damages.
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     3. Illustrating as the proof of a thing. --Fuller.
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     {Exemplary damages}. (Law) See under {Damage}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  exemplary
       adj 1: worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens"
              [syn: {model(a)}]
       2: being or serving as an illustration of a type; "the free
          discussion that is emblematic of democracy"; "an action
          exemplary of his conduct"; [syn: {emblematic}, {typic}]
       3: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an
          exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {admonitory}, {cautionary},
           {monitory}, {warning(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "exemplary":
     admirable, admonishing, admonitory, archetypal, archetypical,
     beyond all praise, blameless, cautionary, cautioning,
     characteristic, classic, classical, commendable, consummate,
     creditable, deserving, deterrent, developed, distinctive,
     distinguishing, estimable, excellent, expert, finished,
     fully developed, guiltless, ideal, illustrative, inculpable,
     innocent, irreprehensible, laudable, masterful, masterly, mature,
     matured, meritorious, model, monitorial, monitory, natural,
     naturalistic, normal, noteworthy, notificational, notifying,
     outstanding, paradigmatic, perfected, polished, praiseworthy,
     precedential, proficient, prototypal, pure, quintessential,
     realistic, refined, regular, representative, righteous, ripe,
     ripened, sample, standard, superior, t, true to form, true to type,
     typal, typic, typical, unblamable, unexceptionable, usual,
     virtuous, warning, well-deserving, worthy