exemplarize

present singular third person exemplarizes · participle present exemplarizing · participle past exemplarized · past exemplarized · alternative UK exemplarise

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

   We may exemplarize the effects of this estimate of one of human nature's infirmities—that of indolence.

   1846 September, “Commercial Estimates of Human Nature”, in the Illustrated Family Magazine, volume IV, number III, page 111

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   To exemplarize unto us how that spirituall and heavenly employments should bee a refreshing unto us in comparison of earthly imployments; and so farre wee were capable of wearisomnes, even in innocency, at to have found other manner of refreshment in divine and spirituall things then in worldly affaires.

   1641, George Abbot, An Answer to Two Treatises of Master Broads., London, page 43

   His poetry particularly represents an extension of the role of communal seer in ways that anticipate, comment on, exemplarize and someimes sharply diverge from more familiar versions of the new writing.

   1975 Sep, Black World/Negro Digest, volume 24, number 11, Johnson Publishing Company, page 5