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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exemplify \Ex*em"pli*fy\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exemplified}; p.
pr &. vb n. {Exemplifying}.] [L. exemplum example + -fy:
cf LL exemplificare to copy, serve as an example.]
1. To show or illustrate by example.
He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which
he had been brought up --Cowper.
2. To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or
transcript of under seal, as of a record. --Holland.
3. To prove or show by an attested copy.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
exemplifying
adj : clarifying by use of examples [syn: {illustrative}]
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