From Middle French exemplaire, from Latin exemplāris, from exemplum.

• (RP, America) IPA: /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/, /ɛɡ-/

exemplary

1. Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
2. Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.

   Her behaviour was always exemplary.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC ↗, page 14 ↗:

     Lady Anne could not repress one involuntary exclamation of "what an inconvenient time Mr. Granard had chosen for his death!" but otherwise she behaved with exemplary propriety. She retired to her dressing-room, which was duly darkened, and there she sat, a white cambric handkerchief in one hand, and a bottle of salts in the other.

3. Serving as a warning; monitory.

   exemplary justice, exemplary punishment, exemplary damages

4. Providing an example or illustration.

• (all senses) exemplar (obsolete)
• (serving as a warning) admonitory

• German: vorbildlich
• Russian: образцо́вый
• Spanish: ejemplarizante

• French: exemplaire
• German: vorbildlich, beispielhaft
• Italian: esemplare
• Portuguese: exemplar
• Russian: приме́рный
• Spanish: ejemplar

exemplary (plural exemplaries)

1. (obsolete) An example, or typical instance.
2. (obsolete) A copy of a book or a piece of writing.

• exemplar
• paradigm

• example
• exemplar
• exemplative
• exemplifiable

• exemplificative
• exemplification
• exemplify