exemplify
/ɛɡˈzɛmplɪfaɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To show or illustrate by example.
Example Sentences
- "This slowness is very detrimental to its adoption: I will exemplify—I had cured a lady of a tiny tumour m her nose; she was pleased and grateful, and subsequently brought to me her niece, on whom the doctors were about to operate for a small ovarian tumour; I cured this tumour also, but it occupied two years or thereabouts, and then aunt and niece both persuaded a friend, a lady residing at Shepherd’s Bush, to come to me. How long did I think it would take to cure her ovarian tumour? At least two years. I prefer the operation said she, that will only take six weeks. But it took less—she died under or shortly after the operation."
- "[T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD."
- "Of course, closure of the West station took away the hotel's raison d'être. In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom flats."
Etymology
From Middle English exemplifien, from Middle French exemplifier and its etymon Medieval Latin exemplificō, from Latin exemplum (“example”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: exemplifien, exemplifier, exemplificō, exemplum