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‖ exemplum|ɛgˈzɛmpləm|
Pl. exempla.
[L., see example n.]
An example; spec. a moralizing tale or parable; an illustrative story.
1890T. F. Crane J. de Vitry's Exempla p. lxxx, The exempla which we have thus far examined have been illustrative stories intended for insertion in sermons. The moral lesson to be drawn from them was left..to..the preacher. In other words, the exemplum was a story which had no independent value, and..was..to be expanded at the preacher's will. 1910Encycl. Brit. IX. 610/2 Homilies..abounding in exempla or illustrative stories. 1954B. White in Year's Work Eng. Studies 1952 63 Considered as a piece of ‘practical advice for comfortable living in a world not operated altogether under reason and justice’, an exemplum told to illustrate and enforce a thesis, the tale is artistically and dramatically satisfying. 1956Essays & Studies New Ser. IX. 57 Shakespeare, Blake and Dante: all three offering..exempla of the energy to be derived from sexual experience. 1968Neophilologus 171 In order to make the sermon more convincing, the preacher..here introduces an exemplum—that of the thief on the cross who, by sincere penitence, entered through the Gates of Paradise with his Lord. |