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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exemplary \Ex"em*pla*ry\, noun An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing. [Obs.] --Donne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exemplary \Ex"em*pla*ry\, adjective [L. exemplaris, fr. exemplar: cf. F. exemplaire. See {Exemplar}.]
1. Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.
[Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary. --Bacon.
2. Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
3. Illustrating as the proof of a thing. --Fuller.
{Exemplary damages}. (Law) See under {Damage}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
exemplary
adjective
1: worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens" [syn: {model(a)}]
2: being or serving as an illustration of a type; "the free discussion that is emblematic of democracy"; "an action exemplary of his conduct"; [syn: {emblematic}, {typic}]
3: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {admonitory}, {cautionary}, {monitory}, {warning(a)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "exemplary": admirable, admonishing, admonitory, archetypal, archetypical, beyond all praise, blameless, cautionary, cautioning, characteristic, classic, classical, commendable, consummate, creditable, deserving, deterrent, developed, distinctive, distinguishing, estimable, excellent, expert, finished, fully developed, guiltless, ideal, illustrative, inculpable, innocent, irreprehensible, laudable, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, meritorious, model, monitorial, monitory, natural, naturalistic, normal, noteworthy, notificational, notifying, outstanding, paradigmatic, perfected, polished, praiseworthy, precedential, proficient, prototypal, pure, quintessential, realistic, refined, regular, representative, righteous, ripe, ripened, sample, standard, superior, t, true to form, true to type, typal, typic, typical, unblamable, unexceptionable, usual, virtuous, warning, well-deserving, worthy
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