He exemplifies wisdom by his decisions.
•Roger exemplifies virtue by the way he treats his employees.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
exemplify — exemplify, illustrate are comparable when they mean to use in speaking or writing concrete instances or cases to make clear something which is difficult, abstract, general, or remote from experience or to serve as an instance, case, or… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
exemplify — UK [ɪɡˈzemplɪfaɪ] / US [ɪɡˈzemplɪˌfaɪ] verb [transitive] Word forms exemplify : present tense I/you/we/they exemplify he/she/it exemplifies present participle exemplifying past tense exemplified past participle exemplified a) to be a typical… … English dictionary
exemplify — ex|em|pli|fy [ ıg zemplı,faı ] verb transitive to be a typical example of something: The bank s collapse exemplifies the risks of large scale currency dealing. a. to show something using an example: I will exemplify my point with a true story… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
exemplify — ex|em|pli|fy [ıgˈzemplıfaı] v past tense and past participle exemplified present participle exemplifying third person singular exemplifies [T] formal [Date: 1400 1500; : Medieval Latin; Origin: exemplificare, from Latin exemplum; EXAMPLE] 1.) to… … Dictionary of contemporary English
exemplify — verb (T) 1 to be a very typical example of something: Los Angeles exemplifies America s diversity. 2 to give an example of something exemplification /Ig zemplifI keISFn/ noun (C, U) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
exemplify — [[t]ɪgze̱mplɪfaɪ[/t]] exemplifies, exemplifying, exemplified VERB If a person or thing exemplifies something such as a situation, quality, or class of things, they are a typical example of it. [FORMAL] [V n] The room s style exemplifies Conran s… … English dictionary
exemplify — [ɪgˈzemplɪˌfaɪ] verb [T] to be a typical example of something … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
Rafael Addiego Bruno — Infobox President|name=Rafael Addiego order= 28° Constitutional President of Uruguay term start=February 12, 1985 term end=March 1, 1985 predecessor=Gregorio Álvarez successor=Julio María Sanguinetti birth date=February 23, 1923 birth place=Salto … Wikipedia
sign of the times — something judged to exemplify or indicate the nature or quality of a particular period, typically something unwelcome or unpleasant the theft was a sign of the times … Useful english dictionary
metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… … Universalium
aesthetics — /es thet iks/ or, esp. Brit., /ees /, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the… … Universalium
