All 4 Uses of
illustrate
in
The Lords of Discipline
- [ cited cases and gave illustrative examples from the past.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- We had come to a place where a twenty-year-old boy roared out his own divinity, and the Bible was put to the sword and the torch to illustrate the preeminence of discipline.
Chpt 2.16illustrate = help make clear
- In December they called him out of the rack line, separating him as they always did from the main body of plebes to illustrate the extent of his abnormality.
Chpt 2.17
- I had no right to forfeit any votes for my roommate because of some perverse psychic hunger to illustrate the cunning of my wit.
Chpt 4.41
Definition:
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(illustrate as in: as illustrated by this example) to help make clear -- typically by example