exemplarizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From exemplar +‎ -ize.

発音

• IPA: /ɪɡˌzɛm.pləˈraɪz/

動詞

exemplarize (third-person singular simple present exemplarizes, present participle exemplarizing, simple past and past participle exemplarized)

1. To make (something) exemplary; to illustrate or illustrate by example: To exemplarize a principle is to set it forth in a way that others can follow.
   • 1641, George Abbot, An Answer to Two Treatises of Master Broads., London, page 43:

     To exemplarize unto us how that spirituall and heavenly employments should bee a refreshing unto us in comparison of earthly imployments; and so farre wee were capable of wearisomnes, even in innocency, at to have found other manner of refreshment in divine and spirituall things then in worldly affaires.

   • 1846 September, “Commercial Estimates of Human Nature”, in the Illustrated Family Magazine, volume IV, number III, page 111:

     We may exemplarize the effects of this estimate of one of human nature's infirmities—that of indolence.

   • 1975 Sep, Black World/Negro Digest, volume 24, number 11, Johnson Publishing Company, page 5:

     His poetry particularly represents an extension of the role of communal seer in ways that anticipate, comment on, exemplarize and someimes sharply diverge from more familiar versions of the new writing.

使用する際の注意点

This is a rare, learned term, often used in academic or literary writing.

参考

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