exemplifying

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.