exempla
- plural of exemplum.
Example Sentences
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Remarks.—Almost all Alfonsi's exempla are from the East.
From More English Fairy Tales by Batten, John Dickson
Caesarius narrates a great many other exempla concerning nuns, but I have quoted the most characteristic.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
A similar collection was written in the north of England, as well as a large body of homilies showing considerable poetic skill, and abounding in exempla or illustrative stories.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
Latin, 146, with "exempla," 154, English, 205 ff., in Chaucer, 335, 354, in Langland, 387, by Wyclif, 434.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules
When Newton said, ``In addiscendis scientiis exempla plus prosunt, quam praecepta,'' he was not addressing criminalists, but he might have been.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
