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exemplative en · ADJ

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exemplātīvus. Possibly attested once in Middle English, but re-borrowed as it is not attested again until the 19th century.

Meanings

1. Serving as or providing a typical example.
   • 1987, "Some pitfalls in applied general equilibrium modeling", Jean Waelbroeck, in Advances in Econometrics: Fifth World Congress, Truman Fassett Bewley (ed), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 199, The discussion of applications will be exemplative only.
   • Connely also refers to a scrolling feature, but provides no exemplative mechanism for allowing the light to travel along the sword. 2000, US Patent Office, US patent 6036576: Light sword toy with moving internal object:
   • The United Nations War Crimes commission had in fact approved the list and considered the enumerated acts are not exhaustive but exemplative war crimes. 1982, Yougindra Khushalani, Dignity and Honour of Women as Basic and Fundamental Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page 28:
2. Exemplary.

Forms

Synonyms

illustrative (providing an example) · demonstrative (providing an example)

Translations (3)

cs příkladný (serving as or providing a typical example) · cs ukázkový (serving as or providing a typical example) · mi whakatauira (serving as or providing a typical example)