Literary notes about Exemplar (AI summary)
In literature, the term "exemplar" is often used to signify an ideal model or standard against which behaviors, objects, or concepts are measured. It appears in moral and philosophical contexts where figures, such as Christ or noble leaders, are depicted as the perfect embodiment of virtue and behavior [1, 2]. At the same time, the word is applied more technically to describe prototypes or templates that set a pattern, as when printed editions serve as the definitive reference for reproductions [3, 4]. Whether highlighting the inherent goodness of a character or establishing a standard to be imitated, the usage of "exemplar" reinforces both ethical ideals and the practical processes of creation and reproduction in literary discourse [5, 6].
- Not to believe on such as Jesus Christ Seen living, the exemplar of all good, That, that, was sin ind
— from The Epic of Paul by William Cleaver Wilkinson - "Do so; but Christ is the first exemplar, the brightest representative of all abstract goodness, of all your virtue in the general."
— from The World's Great Sermons, Volume 05: Guthrie to Mozley - Copyright notice is from the printed exemplar.
— from Ludwig van Beethoven by Pitts Sanborn - 98 The charter thus obtained served as an exemplar for the great charter of liberties which was to be subsequently wrung from King John.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe - And we found that this position, as an exemplar vitiis imitabile , [18] led our muddy-headed philosophers, Jacobi at their head, from bad to worse.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer - " Consequently the exemplar of human virtue must needs pre-exist in God, just as in Him pre-exist the types of all things.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae)From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
