exemplum

noun — 2 senses

exemplum

noun

Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin exemplum. Doublet of example and sample.

1

An example.

In addition, if study of remodeled versus active lesions, or lesions of different grades of severity was germane to a work, photographs of exempla should be presented so readers can evaluate them.2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 32:

2

Literary, Rhetoric A story demonstrating a moral point; a parable.

In the Middle Ages preachers had enlivened their sermons with exempla – edifying tales of judgements upon sinners and mercies shown to the pious.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 90:

Related terms: exemplum virtutis

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