exemplarity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
exemplarity (countable and uncountable, plural exemplarities)
- The quality of being exemplary.
- Synonym: exemplariness
- a. 1714, John Sharp, Our obligations to live as CHRIST lived:
- the exemplarity of Christ's life
- 2008 December 11, Paul Fleming, Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 11:
- Therefore, the century-old tradition of exemplarity, in which great works of art are to serve as standards for production (since they offer norms and maintain tradition), is ruptured in the eighteenth century. In the age of innovation, […]
- 2012 February 1, Irene E. Harvey, Labyrinths of Exemplarity: At the Limits of Deconstruction, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 172:
- And where is exemplarity in relation to this? Which is more pri- mordial? That framework is an essentially hierarchical and competing one inherited from traditional metaphysical foundationalism aiming to reach the summit or bottom of […]
- 2015 April 17, Michele Lowrie, Susanne Lüdemann, Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law, Routledge, →ISBN:
- we can see here how the new value attached to the singular is justified, Blanckenburg's stated intentions notwithstanding, by means of exemplarity: the singular events of a novel are not of interest for what they are in themselves, […]
Translations[edit]
The quality of being exemplary.
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