| 单词 | exemplarity | 
| 释义 | exemplarityn. 1.  The fact or quality of setting or affording a good example; commendable conduct, exemplary behaviour. Also: an instance of such conduct. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > 			[noun]		 > quality of being worthy of imitation exemplarity1604 exemplariness1628 1604    J. Lecey Petition Apol. vii. 35  				Our Priests and your Ministers, who shall exceede and excell the other in vertuous liuing, and exemplarity of life. 1620    N. Brent tr.  P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent  ii. 142  				His Holinesse should send ten or twelue Prelates..men rare, of exemplaritie [It. essemplaritá] and learning. 1644    J. Goodwin Θεομαχια 39  				Such exemplarities of life and conversation, which are sanctified and appointed by God. 1706    tr.  Count d'Elci Present State Court of Rome 78  				His Pastoral Care of his own Country, which he has administred many Years with great Exemplarity of Life. 1780    J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. 		(1789)	 xv. 191  				The properties of exemplarity and frugality seem to pursue the same immediate end. 1869    R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV.  xii. 209  				Thus Came the Count to his end of gallant man, Defunct in faith and exemplarity. 1902    Daily Ardmoreite 		(Ardmore, Indian Territory)	 28 Oct. 8/3  				Mrs. Bogie..met every one of them with judgment, grace and Christian exemplarity. 2015    Internat. N.Y. Times 		(Nexis)	 14 Sept. (Finance section) 18  				My team could always rely on exemplarity: I was always working much more than anyone else. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > 			[noun]		 > a pattern or model of conduct > fact of acting as an example exemplarity1647 1647    T. Matthew Missive of Consol. Introd. sig. A7v  				Out of the wrecks of Martyrs, the chaines of Confessors, and the Testaments of the Fathers, the Church maketh a vast treasure of perswasion, and exemplarity. a1677    I. Barrow Wks. 		(1686)	 III. 33  				Some performances [of our Lord]..were done for exemplarity.  3.  The fact or quality of serving or being intended to serve as a deterrent or warning to others against a particular act, course of action, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > 			[noun]		 > deterring > a deterrent example > quality of being exemplariness1642 exemplarity1648 1648    O. Cromwell Let. 21 Sept. in  Lett. & Speeches 		(1845)	 I. 376  				I hope the exemplarity of justice will testify for us our great detestation of the fact. 1660    Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium II.  iv. iv. §11  				Not upon any direct account of justice, but..for terror and exemplarity. 1787    J. Bentham Panopticon 		(1791)	 xv. 83  				The inferiority of the latter mode of punishment in point of exemplarity and equality..stands, I believe undisputed. 1834    Imperial Mag. Aug. 351/1  				When a punishment possesses these qualities, it possesses an exemplarity which,..has a tendency to render it more efficacious. 1868    Trans. National Assoc. Promotion Social Sci. 1867 71  				Attempts to increase the exemplarity of punishment, by surrounding it with horrors, are now generally condemned. 1931    J. L. Gillin Taming Criminal i. 7  				Japan, like England and France, has discarded Jeremy Bentham's theory of the exemplarity of punishment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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