Meanings
comparative more exemplative · superlative most exemplative
- 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.
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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 28Connely 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 objectSynonyms: illustrative, demonstrative
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveServing as or providing a typical example.
Origin
- Latinexemplātīvus
- Englishexemplative
Learned borrowing from Latin exemplātīvus. Possibly attested once in Middle English, but re-borrowed as it is not attested again until the 19th century.
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Czech příkladný, ukázkový
- příkladnýserving as or providing a typical example
- ukázkovýserving as or providing a typical example
Māori whakatauira
- whakatauiraserving as or providing a typical example
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