Exemplative
Full definition of exemplative
Adjective
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 90-247-2585-2, 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 0-52-146725-X, page 199,The discussion of applications will be exemplative only.
- 2000, US patent 6036576: Light sword toy with moving internal object, US Patent Office,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
- (providing an exemple) illustrative, demonstrative