exemplary.
Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
Meaning & usage
Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.
Her behaviour was always exemplary.
Serving as a warning; monitory.
exemplary justice, exemplary punishment, exemplary damages
Providing an example or illustration.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English exemplarie, from Latin exemplāris (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile”), from exemplum (“an example; a sample; a copy or transcript”). By surface analysis, example + -ary. Doublet of exemplar. First use appears before 1450.
An example, or typical instance.
A copy of a book or a piece of writing.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English exemplarie, from Latin exemplārium. By surface analysis, example + -ary. First use appears before 1425.
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