Exemplar vs. Exemplary

Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model.

A role model.

Something typical or representative of a class; an example.

A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype.

A well known usage of a scientific theory.

A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.

A copy of a book or piece of writing.

(obsolete) Exemplary.

A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.

Example: ‘Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit.’;

A copy of a book or writing.

Exemplary.

Example: ‘The exemplar piety of the father of a family.’;

something to be imitated;

Example: ‘an exemplar of success’; ‘a model of clarity’; ‘he is the very model of a modern major general’;

Deserving honour, respect and admiration.

Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect.

Example: ‘Her behaviour was always exemplary.’;

Serving as a warning; monitory.

Example: ‘exemplary justice, exemplary punishment, exemplary damages’;

Providing an example or illustration.

(obsolete) An example, or typical instance.

(obsolete) A copy of a book or a piece of writing.

Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.

Example: ‘[Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary.’;

Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.

Illustrating as the proof of a thing.

An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.

worthy of imitation;

Example: ‘exemplary behavior’; ‘model citizens’;

being or serving as an illustration of a type;

Example: ‘the free discussion that is emblematic of democracy’; ‘an action exemplary of his conduct’;

serving to warn;

Example: ‘shook a monitory finger at him’; ‘an exemplary jail sentence’;