exemplarise

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/ɪɡˌzɛm.pləˈraɪz/

verb

To make (something) exemplary; to illustrate or illustrate by example: To exemplarise a principle is to set it forth in a way that others can follow.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

verbexemplarise (third-person singular simple present exemplarises, present participle exemplarising, simple past and past participle exemplarised)

present singular third person exemplarises · participle present exemplarising · participle past exemplarised · past exemplarised · alternative US exemplarize

  1. To make (something) exemplary; to illustrate or illustrate by example: To exemplarise a principle is to set it forth in a way that others can follow.

    I conclude that intepreting Plato as construing the awareness of the Form, perhaps the intuition of the Form, as exemplarising the Form would solve the major problems of interpreting what he says about the Forms.

    2019 September 30, Nicholas D. Smith, Stephen Hetherington, editors, What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology, Taylor & Francis, page 63
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    The life which is awaiting us is destined to be of importance not only to ourselves, but also to humanity at large, in that we, in that life, shall be for the first time exemplarising the sex attitude wherein all the ideas of the future on the subject are to find substantiation.

    1926, Leo N. Tolstoy, translated by Mrs. Lydia Turin, Mrs. H. M. Lucas, and C. J. Hogarth, Stories & Dramas, London and Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., translation of original in Russian, page 208

    There’s evidence here to suggest that one needs to reconsider the readership of these poens, to see the audience as situated in relatively educated and literarily knowing contexts, ones prepared to read romance in the manner conventional in its great tradition, as exemplarising narrative addressing social responsibility.

    2005 July, Ralph Hanna, London Literature, 1300-1380, Cambridge University Press, page 116

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