Meaning of exemplarity | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being exemplary.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“the exemplarity of Christ's life”

“Therefore, the century-old tradition of exemplarity, in which great works of art are to serve⟳ as standards for production (since they offer⟳ norms and maintain⟳ tradition), is ruptured in the eighteenth century. In the age of innovation,[…]”

“And where is exemplarity in relation to this? Which is more pri- mordial? That framework is an essentially hierarchical and competing one inherited from traditional metaphysical foundationalism aiming to reach⟳ the summit or bottom of[…]”

“we can see⟳ here how the new value attached to the singular is justified, Blanckenburg's stated intentions notwithstanding, by means of exemplarity: the singular events of a novel are not of interest⟳ for what they are in themselves,[…]”

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