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exemplative

exemplative adjective: serving as or providing a typical example.

Adjective

exemplative (comparative more exemplative, superlative most exemplative)

  1. Serving as or providing a typical example.
    • 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 28
    • The discussion of applications will be exemplative only.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...
  2. Exemplary.

Synonyms of exemplative

Forms of exemplative

comparativemore exemplative
superlativemost exemplative

Origin of exemplative

Learned borrowing from Latin exemplātīvus. Possibly attested once in Middle English, but re-borrowed as it is not attested again until the 19th century.

Questions about exemplative

What does exemplative mean?
Exemplative means serving as or providing a typical example.
What part of speech is exemplative?
Exemplative is an adjective.

Words near exemplative in the dictionary

  1. exemplarized
  2. exemplarizes
  3. exemplarizing
  4. exemplars
  5. exemplary
  6. exemplative
  7. exemple
  8. exemples
  9. exempli gratia
  10. exemplifiable
  11. exemplificate

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