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Exemplify   /ɪgzˈɛmpləfˌaɪ/   Listen
verb
Exemplify  v. t.  (past & past part. exemplified; pres. part. exemplifying)  
1.
To show or illustrate by example. "He did but... exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up."
2.
To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record.
3.
To prove or show by an attested copy.





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... description that in spite of all technical faults still has some degree of merit. The following quotations, taken respectively from The Mowers and The Flight of Leeona, with all their extravagance, will exemplify both his weakness and his ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various
... living, perhaps, who has more contempt for money than Hall Caine, revealing himself in this also a true artist; yet to exemplify to a confrere the practical value of what he calls the "literary statesmanship" which he has practised throughout his career, he will sometimes show the little book in which are entered the receipts from his various works. No ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell
... a leader may be explained by an illustration, which at the same time will serve to exemplify how the mind experiences a more or less unconscious (d) preparation for the ...
— Writing the Photoplay • J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds
... worshipped the sun. They believed that something besides God had authority and power, [25] could heal and bless; that God wrought through matter —by means of that which does not reflect Him in a single quality or quantity!—the grand realities of Mind, thus to exemplify the power ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... been made the official guardian. Society felt some surprise as well as gratification when Sir Roundell Palmer recently published his 'Book of Praise;' but if the Attorney General, instead of printing his select hymns had seen fit to exemplify their beauties with his own voice from the stall of a church-singer, the piety of his conduct would have scarcely reconciled Lord Palmerston to its ...
— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson


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