a. Tending to exemplify; furnishing an example. Const. of.
1826. Bentham, in Westm. Rev., VI. 498. Distinguishable shapes … the ratiocinative, the instructional, the exemplificative.
1889. F. Hall, in Nation (N.Y.), XLVIII. 96/2. Of this truism … the still frequent onslaughts on reliable are noticeably exemplificative.
