exemplify
Origin of exemplify
Synonyms for exemplify
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represent, depict, illuminate, elucidate, mirror, manifest, typify, personify, epitomize, embody, demonstrate, symbolize, illustrate, body, exhibit, show, quote, evidence, instance, displayExamples from the Web for exemplify
Contemporary Examples of exemplify
Few Americans appear to exemplify that proposition better than Joseph P. Kennedy.
“Thom Grey was created to exemplify a more youthful and university inspired sensibility,” the designer told WWD.
He was not Hugh Hefner, who used his house to exemplify his sexual values.
Historical Examples of exemplify
If he succeeds, he will, of course, exemplify the wisdom of having two strings to his bow.
Great AstronomersR. S. Ball
To the sound ou he prefixes an e (hard to exemplify otherwise than orally).
The Biglow PapersJames Russell Lowell
France has a right to exemplify the Jacquard in its fulness, for it is hers.
Truly they exemplify the old proverb, "Some must sow, that others may reap."
Little Folks (July 1884)Various
In No. 88, the eaglets also exemplify the disposition of charges upon a Bend.
The Handbook to English HeraldryCharles Boutell
exemplify
- to show by example
- to serve as an example of
- law
- to make an official copy of (a document from public records) under seal
- to transcribe (a legal document)
Word Origin for exemplify
Word Origin and History for exemplify
early 15c., "to illustrate by examples, to instruct by (good) example," from Medieval Latin exemplificare "to illustrate," from Latin exemplum (see example). Meaning "to serve as an example" is recorded from 1793. Related: Exemplified; exemplifies; exemplifying.