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单词 to make exemplar
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to make exemplar
2. Of a punishment, act of retribution, etc.: serving or intended to serve as a deterrent or warning to others against a particular act, course of action, etc. Also (in to make exemplar) of a person punished in this way. Cf. exemplary adj. 2, to make an example of (also out of) at example n. Phrases 1. Obsolete.In quot. 1575 the word could be interpreted as showing exemplar n. in the sense ‘a deterrent example’.
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exemplary1574
exemplar1575
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 32 To that falt [sc. unchastity in a Vestal] is na grace. Bot eirdit quik, to the laif examplair.
?1583 tr. A. de Bazán Relation Expongnable Attempt & Conquest Tercera sig. A4 Some of these sayd Ilandes..hath fallen into the daunger of Crimen læsæ maiestatis, diuine and humayne, worthy of exemplar punishment.
1612 in J. G. Wallace-James Deeds E. Lothian (1899) xv. 28 For ane examplar terrificatioun to all Godles harlottis to flie and abhorre the lyk.
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 414 If he were found culpable of such a villany, he would inflict an exemplar punishment vpon him.
1639 G. Daniel Eclesiasticus in Poems (1878) III. 19 He shall be worne with ranke Infirmities, Corrupt, and made Exemplar to the Eyes Of other Men.
1654 Weekly Intelligencer 21 Feb. 178 It was thought fit they should be made examplar by losing their lives in the same place where the Robbery was committed.
1656 A. Cowley Davideis iv. 125 in Poems Ely's curst House th'exemplar vengeance bears Of all their Blood.
1703 Rules & Instr. Sodality Immaculate Conception vi. 91 When any Sodalist shall commit such failings as seem to deserve exemplar reprehension, he is with all humility to hear his faults.
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