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English
Adjective
exemplative (comparative more exemplative, superlative most exemplative)
- Serving as or providing a typical example.
1982, Yougindra Khushalani, Dignity and Honour of Women as Basic and Fundamental Human Rights, Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page 28:The United Nations War Crimes commission had in fact approved the list and considered the enumerated acts are not exhaustive but exemplative war crimes.
- 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.
2000, US Patent Office, US patent 6036576: Light sword toy with moving internal object:Connely also refers to a scrolling feature, but provides no exemplative mechanism for allowing the light to travel along the sword.
- Exemplary.
Usage notes
- Whereas exemplary has positive connotations, exemplative is generally neutral.
Synonyms
Translations
serving as or providing a typical example