exemplative

adjective

1. Serving as or providing a typical example.

   The United Nations War Crimes commission had in fact approved the list and considered the enumerated acts are not exhaustive but exemplative war crimes.

2. Exemplary.

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin exemplātīvus. Possibly attested once in Middle English, but re-borrowed as it is not attested again until the 19th century.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry exemplative (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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