exemplary

adjective

1. 1

   Deserving honour, respect and admiration.

   To answer these questions we must look more closely at the exemplary achievements of [David] Politzer, [David] Gross and [Frank] Wilcek. Here we will see the severe problems facing theorists in both the theoretical and phenomenological exploitation of QCD [quantum chromodynamics].

2. 2

   Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.

   Her behaviour was always exemplary.

   The Archbishops and Bishops, next under the King, have the government of the Church and affairs ecclesiastical: be not, Sir, a mean to prefer any to those places for any by-respect; but only such as for their learning, gravity, and worth are deserving: and whose lives and doctrine are and ought to be exemplary.

   For thus the Saviour of the world became humane, alluring, full of invitation and the ſweetneſſes of love, exemplary, humble and medicinal.

   Lady Anne could not repress one involuntary exclamation of "what an inconvenient time Mr. Granard had chosen for his death!" but otherwise she behaved with exemplary propriety. She retired to her dressing-room, which was duly darkened, and there she sat, a white cambric handkerchief in one hand, and a bottle of salts in the other.

3. 3

   Serving as a warning; monitory.

   exemplary justice, exemplary punishment, exemplary damages

   For certain torts exemplary damages may be awarded to punish the defendant for cynically committing them and other remedies are available which are purely restitutionary in effect, notably restitutionary damages and money had and received.

4. 4

   Providing an example or illustration.

   [...] I want to round off my consideration of poststructuralist geographies by pursuing origami as the exemplary art of spatial science.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteAn example, or typical instance.

2. 2

   obsoleteA copy of a book or a piece of writing.

   Farther, more part of the exemplaries, curiouſly ſought by me, and fortunately found in ſundry places of this your dominion, hath bene emprinted in Germany, and now be in the preſſes chefley of Frobenus, [...]

Forms

plural

exemplaries

comparative

more exemplary

superlative

most exemplary