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Exemplar \Ex*em"plar\, n. [L. exemplar, exemplum: cf. F. exemplaire. See Example , and cf. Examper , Sampler .] A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives. Such ...
Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 n. 1 Something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model. 2 A role model. 3 Something typical or representative of a class; see example. 4 A pattern after which others should be made; see archetype. 5 A well known usage of a scientific theory. ...
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In textual criticism , an exemplar is the text used to produce another text. In the study of the history of a text an especially important exemplar is that which precedes any split in the tradition of that text, that is, before significant textual variations ...
WordNet
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n. something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general" [syn: example , model , good example ]
Usage examples of exemplar.
II For, wonning in these ancient lands, Enchased and lettered as a tomb, And scored with prints of perished hands, And chronicled with dates of doom, Though my own Being bear no bloom I trace the lives such scenes enshrine, Give past exemplars present room, And their experience count as mine.
The virtues in the Soul run in a sequence correspondent to that existing in the over-world, that is among their exemplars in the Intellectual-Principle.
Thus, according to Soko, the samurai was to serve as an exemplar of high moral purpose for Japanese of all classes.
Harold Dolan, also of SID, testified to having compared it to the Watson exemplar, finding eighteen points of identity, eight more than LAPD requires for a positive identification.
This theory has it that the prince, never known as the brightest light or most upstanding exemplar of the Hanover line, suffered from effects of syphilis on the brain as a result of his debauching and that he used to slum in Whitechapel and pick up lowly women.
That is to say, to each of those propositions corresponds a direct, repeatable, experiential disclosure, as interpreted in a community of those who have mastered the paradigm and displayed competence in the injunctions and exemplars.
There were grotesque bearded men whose parts had been broadened and lengthened until their membrums hung pendulously almost to their knees, and there were others as tall and thin as exemplars.
Ossminid, Emperor of Crowns, Persuader Exemplar of the First Lifewave.
She is layered with the finest of mathematicians and imprimaturs and phantasts, as well as the sludge of autists, exemplars, and Yarkona slel-neckers.
Faith of God may yet experience, we pledge ourselves, before the mercy-seat of thy glorious Father, to hand on, unimpaired and undivided, to generations yet unborn, the glory of that tradition of which thou hast been its most brilliant exemplar.
He would go among the harijan, whores, exemplars, autists, and arhats, looking in their hurried eyes for the light of consciousness.
I retained the best of the furniture from our Hampstead apartment, at that time the exemplar of restrained urban taste: Hille couch and armchairs in wood and moquette, Heals sideboard in sycamore, an original Ercol dining-room set, Luminator lamps from Arte Luce, Aubusson needlepoint rugs.
Reagan and the two Bushes were and are not only great political leaders but also paragons of truth and morality, and that Bill Clinton and the Democrats are exemplars of debauchery and deceit, let us agree that neither of these extreme sentiments are quite accurate.
That of Exemplar Helen, of course, was there as it had been for many centuries, portraying a beautiful woman wearing a toga-like Dardanian garment, with a diadem in her hair.
Immeasurable, because in the great exemplars the bullshit is so artfully mingled and intertwined with actual received wisdom that its essential nature is deracinated and pasteurized.