An exemplum (Latin for "example", pl. exempla, exempli gratia = "for example", abbr.: e.g.) is a moral anecdote, brief or extended, real or fictitious...

a prototype or model which others can use to understand a topic better Exemplum, medieval collections of short stories to be told in sermons Eixample,...

Miniature cattle are found in various parts of the world. Some, such as the Dexter of Ireland and the Vechur of Kerala, India, are traditional breeds;...

struggling English colonies when Puritan preachers began to use his life as an exemplum of the developing American spirit. On the eve of the American Revolution...

and humorous stories designed to make a point in a conversation, and the exemplum a priest would insert in a sermon belong into this tradition. Written collections...

Klaret/Bartoloměj z Chlumce, who mentions the fairy tale as a preaching exemplum. It was later collected by one of the most famous Czech writers - Božena...

symbolism of the second exemplum, ending with a description of God as strongly vengeful. The third, and by far the longest, exemplum (ll. 1149–1796) recounts...

writing styles give such abbreviations without punctuation, as ie and eg. Exemplum virtutis a model of virtue exercitus sine duce corpus est sine spiritu...

PMID 13577116. Wilcox, Amanda (2008). "Nature's monster: Caligula as exemplum in Seneca's dialogues". In Sluiter, Ineke; Rosen, Ralph M (eds.). Kakos:...

on the back of the statue reads: SIMULACRUM ISTUD AD MAGNUM LIBERTATIS EXEMPLUM NEC SINE IPSA DURATURUM HORATIUS GREENOUGH FACIEBAT and translates as:...

regiae majestatis (occisorem), membratim laniatum equis apud Coventre, exemplum terribile et spectaculum comentabile praebere (iussit) omnibus audentibus...

embroidered it and the date. The word sampler is derived from the Latin exemplum, which means 'example'. The earliest sampler extant is a spot sampler,...

have been devised and exploited by conservative authorities as a moral exemplum for Muslims to follow in later, uncertain times, when the devotion of the...

Romana) or Cimon and Pero is an ancient Greek and Roman exemplary story (exemplum) of filial piety (pietas) in which a woman secretly breastfeeds her father...

another escaped the snares of the hunter." This story is mentioned as an exemplum when the Brethren speak of mutual aid in one risaala (treatise), a crucial...

secretum mysterium occultando compleveris. Verum ut ordinem videas, ponamus exemplum. Hxpf gfbmcz fueib gmbt gxhsr ege rbd qopmauwu. wfxegk ak tnrqxyx. Huius...

reflecting badly on Arnaud. On the contrary the incident was included as an exemplum in Caeasarius's Book of Miracles because (to Cistercians at least) it reflected...

(2015), a novel by William Amos Human Acts (2016), a novel by Han Kang "Exemplum in memoriam Kwangju" for orchestra by Isang Yun 518-062 by Gloss and Naksyeon...

forms, and developed. The already well established notion of Judith as an exemplum of the courage of local people against tyrannical rule from afar was given...

refers to "adulterers admitted in droves"; Pliny the Elder calls her an “exemplum licentiae” (NH 21.9). Dio Cassius mentions "revels and drinking parties...

miracle grec chez Auguste Comte, in L'Antiquité grecque au XIXè siècle : un exemplum contesté ?, C. Avlami (dir.), L'Harmattan, 2000, pp. 157–192 Laurent Fedi...

Koppes writes that The Secret Garden makes use of the fairy tale, the exemplum, and the pastoral literary genres, which lends the novel a deeper "thematic...

people—and then proceeds to tell a moral tale. The tale itself is an extended exemplum. Setting out to kill Death, three young men encounter an Old Man who says...

claims that the ‘’Landsknecht’’ represented for Germans in particular, the "exemplum of a race of men, free, natural, and courageous". See: Andrew Morrall,...

God the Son to God the Father: 'what greater example of obedience' ... exemplum qui per inobedientiam perieramus quam deo patri deus filius obediens usque...

with scales and sword, which emphasizes the role of the painting as an exemplum iustitiae. Selected art works The Judgment of Cambyses. Stained glass,...

These fragments constellate to form an exemplum of what Pound calls "clear song". There follows another exemplum, this time of the linguistic scholarship...

that Christ was the better physician, signalling the significance of the exemplum of Pantaleon that faith is to be trusted over medical advice. St. Alphonsus...

an English translation in 1576. The Roman figure most often cited as an exemplum is Gaius Marius, whose speech of self-justification was familiar to readers...

also appears in Cicero's De Officiis 3.99-115, where it is used as an exemplum of honour before practicality. According to Augustine of Hippo in City...