Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that is worthy of imitation; a perfect example or model. synonym: ideal.
- noun One that is typical or representative; an example.
- noun A copy, as of a book.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A model, original, or pattern to be copied or imitated; the idea or image of a thing formed in the mind; an archetype.
- noun A specimen; a copy, especially a copy of a book or writing.
- Serving as an example; exemplary.
- Conveying a warning; fitted to warn or deter.
- Pertaining or relating to an example or to examples; containing or constituting an example.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Exemplary.
- noun A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
- noun obsolete A copy of a book or writing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something fit to be
imitated ; seeideal andmodel . - noun Something
typical orrepresentative of a class; seeexample . - noun A
pattern after which others should be made; seearchetype . - noun A well known
usage of ascientific theory . - noun A
handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwrittencopy ; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine. - adjective obsolete
Exemplary .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something to be imitated
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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For those who would like to compare these texts to that of a medieval Dominican Breviary, one is available in digital form here, showing an exemplar from the Czech Republic.
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At one extreme, Carver is classified as the exemplar of minimalism.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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A modern exemplar is Peter Birks, who was the leading unjust enrichment (restitution) scholar in the English speaking world (as well as being a leading scholar on civil law and roman law).
Balkinization 2007
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And since its primary exemplar is a male rather than a female subject, those implications would seem impossible to ignore.
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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The next post will be on the second type of similarity-based approach, which are usually called exemplar theories.
Concepts II: Prototypes Chris 2005
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The third assumption, which follows from the first, is that every time we attend to a stimulus, we encode it, and thus every attended instance of a stimulus is encoded this is sometimes called the exemplar theory of memory, because it states that all attended exemplars are encoded.
The Lazy Brain Chris 2004
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The third assumption, which follows from the first, is that every time we attend to a stimulus, we encode it, and thus every attended instance of a stimulus is encoded this is sometimes called the exemplar theory of memory, because it states that all attended exemplars are encoded.
Archive 2004-12-01 Chris 2004
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3. The Ramayana is known as an exemplar of devotion in partnership and a manual on how to be a noble leader.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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3. The Ramayana is known as an exemplar of devotion in partnership and a manual on how to be a noble leader.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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3. The Ramayana is known as an exemplar of devotion in partnership and a manual on how to be a noble leader.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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