Object-lesson definition

A concrete illustration of a moral or principle.
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An actual or practical demonstration or exemplification of some principle.
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A lesson taught (especially to young children) using a familiar or unusual object as a focus.
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An example from real life that typifies/explains a principle or teaches a lesson.
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Anything used as an example or lesson which serves to warn others as to the outcomes that result from a particular action or behavior, as exemplified by the fates of those who followed that course.

Let that be an object lesson to him.

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A lesson taught by using a material object.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
object-lesson
Plural:
object lessons

Object-lesson Sentence Examples

  • In England the political schemings of Parsons were no small factors in the odium which fell on the Society at large; and his determination to capture the English Catholics as an apanage of the Society, to the exclusion of all else, was an object lesson to the rest of Europe of a restless ambition and lust of domination which were to find many imitators.

  • So striking an object lesson was not lost on the Prussian regent, and he entered on a vigorous policy of reforming and strengthen ing the army, General von Roon being appointed minister of war for this purpose.

  • Meanwhile, among the German people the object lesson of the Italian war had greatly stimulated the sentiment of national unity.

  • Since, in spite of this object-lesson, the Polish nobles still continued their offers, the peasants consulted the local Austrian authorities as to what course they should take; and the local authorities, unaccustomed to arriving at any decision without consulting Vienna, practically gave them carte blanche to do as they liked.

  • But the great object lesson was furnished by the events in Prague, where the quarrel between Czechs and Germans, radicals and conservatives, issued on the 12th of June in a rising of the Czech students and populace.

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