Noun

(en noun)

The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.

That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.

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A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)"an illustration [...] is a computer projection of future premiums, cash values and death benefits based on the current dividend scale (whole life) or current interest rates and current costs of insurance (universal life)." taken from http://www.evaluatelifeinsurance.org

Noun

(en noun)

A person of preeminent qualities, who acts as a pattern or model of some given (especially positive) quality.

In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.

* Shakespeare

Man, the paragon of animals!

* Emerson

The riches of sweet Mary's son, / Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon .

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(obsolete) A companion; a match; an equal.

* Sir Philip Sidney

Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister

(Spenser)

(obsolete) Comparison; competition.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ix:

good by paragone / Of euill, may more notably be rad, / As white seemes fairer, macht with blacke attone [...].

(typography) A size of type between great primer and double pica.

A flawless diamond of at least 100 carats.