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Definition of Exemplary
Exemplary

Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.

Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.

Illustrating as the proof of a thing.

An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.

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Exemplary Quotations

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren G. Bennis

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
Nelson Rockefeller

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Titus Livius

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
Constance Baker Motley

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
Anita Brookner

There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.
Gedde Watanabe

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.
John Witherspoon

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
Martin Amis

Exemplary Translations

exemplary in German is beispielhaft, vorbildlich
exemplary in Spanish is ejemplar
exemplary in Swedish is exemplarisk


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