Meanings
comparative more exemplificative · superlative most exemplificative
- Serving as an example; illustrative.
From this point of view, street-boys’ life conditions represent an exemplificative and extreme case of concurring conditions of abuse and neglect, which come under the more extensive concept of child maltreatment.
2015 October 29, “Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on the Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
Origin
From the past participial stem of Latin exemplificō + -ive.
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