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exemplifies

exemplifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of exemplify.

Meaning of exemplify

Verb

exemplify (third-person singular simple present exemplifies, present participle exemplifying, simple past and past participle exemplified)

  1. (ambitransitive) To show or illustrate by example.
    • This slowness is very detrimental to its adoption: I will exemplify—I had cured a lady of a tiny tumour m her nose; she was pleased and grateful, and subsequently brought to me her niece, on whom the doctors were about to operate for a small ovarian tumour; I cured this tumour also, but it occupied...1893, J[ames] Compton Burnett, “The Difficulties”, in Curability of Tumours by Medicines, London: The Homœopathic Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 52
  2. (transitive) To be an instance of or serve as an example.
    • [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28
    Synonyms:
    instance
  3. (transitive) To make an attested copy or transcript of (a document) under seal.
  4. (transitive) To prove by such an attested copy or transcript.

Questions about exemplifies

What is exemplifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Exemplifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of exemplify.

Words near exemplifies in the dictionary

  1. exemplificatory
  2. exemplifie
  3. exemplified
  4. exemplifier
  5. exemplifiers
  6. exemplifies
  7. exemplify
  8. exemplifying
  9. exemplum
  10. exempt
  11. exemptable

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