Literary notes about Exemplify (AI summary)
In literature, the term "exemplify" is used to indicate that a particular quality, idea, or principle is vividly demonstrated through a representative case. Authors employ it to connect abstract notions with concrete manifestations, whether in character behavior, historical events, or natural phenomena. In one passage, it conveys how acts can incarnate spoken ideals, suggesting that a life should reflect its professed values [1, 2]. In other writings, it serves to clarify complex arguments by showing how an object or event visibly stands for larger concepts, such as architectural beauty or the ambivalence of human emotions [3, 4]. Thus, "exemplify" functions as a powerful literary device that bridges theory with tangible reality [5, 6, 7].
- But if you do not attain to all immediately, if your life does not at once exemplify your words, let it not discourage you.
— from The Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox - It is therefore of the utmost importance that he should himself exemplify true courtesy, because he will be imitated.
— from How to Teach Manners in the School-room by Julia M. Dewey - The Hôtel de Cluny, finished in 1490, still remains to exemplify the beauty of the native French domestic architecture modified by the new style.
— from The Story of Paris by Thomas Okey - When they occur simultaneously they exemplify the ambivalence of emotions which exists in most of the intimate relations between all persons.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud - The Bushmen of Africa, and the Bushmen of Australia, inter alios , exemplify this.
— from Fishing from the Earliest Times by William Radcliffe - Nothing could more strikingly exemplify both the generosity and the tact that marked the great conqueror's character than this incident.
— from History of Julius Caesar by Jacob Abbott - To be able to be a philosopher he had to exemplify the ideal; to exemplify it, he was bound to believe in it.
— from The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
