• Exemplative

    Full definition of exemplative

    Adjective

    exemplative

    1. 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.
    2. Exemplary.

    Usage notes

    Whereas exemplary has positive connotations, exemplative is generally neutral.

    Synonyms

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