Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX'EM-PLA-RI-LY, adv.

1. In a manner to deserve imitation; in a worthy or excellent manner. She is exemplarily loyal. Howell.
2. In a manner that may warn others, by way of terror; in such a manner that others may be cautioned to avoid an evil; or in a manner intended to warn others. Some he punished exemplarily in this world. Hakewill.