Example vs Exemplifies - What's the difference?
example | exemplifies |
Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
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, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
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, title= Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
* Bible, (w) xiii, 15
* (John Milton)
* 1818 , (Mary Shelley), :
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, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
A person punished as a warning to others.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Bible, x, 6
A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
* (William Shakespeare)
An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
(exemplify)
To show or illustrate by example.
To be an instance of or serve as an example.
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To make an attested copy or transcript of (a document) under seal.
As verbs the difference between example and exemplifies
is that example is to be illustrated or exemplified (by) while exemplifies is (exemplify).As a noun example
is something that is representative of all such things in a group.example
English
Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
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- For I have given you an example , that ye should do as I have done to you.
- I gave, thou sayest, the example ; I led the way.
- Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge,
- Hang him; he'll be made an example .
- Now these things were our examples , to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- Such temperate order in so fierce a cause / Doth want example .