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Definition of Exempla
1. exemplum [n] - See also: exemplum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exempla
Literary usage of Exempla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Exemplum in the Early Religious and Didactic Literature of England by Joseph Albert Mosher (1911)
"This early vernacular collection of exempla, with its original, constituted the
chief ... exempla in extant Old English literature are limited to Alfred's ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"The use of exempla by French and German preachers has been fully treated by ...
The history of exempla in the Netherlands during the Middle Ages is the ..."
3. An Introduction to English Medieval Literature by Charles Sears Baldwin (1914)
"(6) exempla Many other short tales in the middle age, as in any other age, ...
See The exempla, or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones Vulgares of ..."
4. A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White (1896)
"... everywhere morals from the Physiologus, the Bestiaries, and the exempla. ...
and such mediaeval books of exempla as the Lumen Natura ; also Hoefer, ..."
5. A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight by George Lyman Kittredge (1916)
"THE CANZONI AND THE exempla The essentials of the story which we are examining
are preserved in two short Italian poems of the fourteenth century, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Again in the notes зу the Arian bishop Maximin (exempla, tab. 22), of the 5th
century, the same style of writing appears,—with some variations, however, ..."
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