Finally, both hold up as worthy of imitation exemplars or prototypes of people regarded as typifying the virtue or identity in question. |
A deity's four faces may illustrate the concept of God's fourfoldness, typifying his strength, knowledge, lordship, and potency. |
I cringe when I read reviews of my sociological work, typifying me as a hero. |
To give you the clearest possible idea of what any given house is worth, we have, in most cases, identified the neighbourhood that we have treated as typifying any given area. |
Escalation and one-upmanship, identified as typifying the dynamic of urban violence, are what drives these acts of vandalism. |
The catalyst for this was predictably hebephrenic, typifying the whole Internet experience. |