paradigmatic
Speech parts
1. paradigmatic - Noun
2. paradigmatic - Adjective
Meaning
Alt. of Paradigmatical
A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence.
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According to religious thought, said Eliade, myths establish models for human behavior, and "the more religious man is, the more paradigmatic models does he possess as a guide to his attitudes and actions" (Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane, p. 100).
Additionally, humour was thought to include a combination of ridiculousness and wit in an individual; the paradigmatic case being Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff.
Author James Basker states that the song has been employed by African Americans as the "paradigmatic Negro spiritual" because it expresses the joy felt at being delivered from slavery and worldly miseries.