from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Of or relating to a paradigm.
adjective Linguistics Of or relating to the set of substitutional or oppositional relationships a linguistic unit has with other units, such as the relationship between (n) in not and other sounds that could be substituted for it in the same context, like (t) and (p). Together with the set of syntagmatic relations, paradigmatic relations describe the identity of a linguistic unit in a given language.
from The Century Dictionary.
Exemplary; model.
noun In theology, one who narrated the lives of religious persons to serve as examples of Christian holiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Eccl. Hist.) A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence.
adjective Exemplary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective of or pertaining to a paradigm
adjective related as members of a substitution class
adjective obsoleteexemplary
noun historical, religion A writer of memoirs of religiouspersona, as examples of Christianexcellence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective of or relating to a grammatical paradigm
adjective of or relating to a typical example
adjective related as members of a substitution class
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French paradigmatique, from Greek paradeigmatikos, serving as a model, from paradeigma, paradeigmat-, example; see paradigm.]
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In any case, Christian critics of modernity too often paint with a big brush that does not capture elements of the Christian tradition present within paradigmatic representatives of modern liberalism.
Insistence on that distinction not only renders aesthetic experience cold-hearted and dull, but it also fails to accommodate certain paradigmatic aesthetic affects, including the important role of emotions and their somatic register in the apprehension of art (Robinson; Shusterman).
Putting aside for the moment that Anderson's own account of Sartre's career belies this statement, Sartre was not "paradigmatic" of anything except his own thinking and writing.
This article traces the contours of a different kind of paradigmatic split, one that results in protracted confluence and contest rather than an immediate absorption of one model by another.
I neither said nor meant anything whatever about an "identity crisis" of Hitler's, about any other crisis of Hitler's that was "paradigmatic," or about an "identity crisis of Germany after 1918."
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