demonstration vs example

demonstration

noun
  • The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something. 

  • A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march. 

  • A proof. 

  • Expression of one's feelings by outward signs. 

  • A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner. 

  • An event at which something will be demonstrated. 

  • A show of military force. 

example

noun
  • Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule. 

  • Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example). 

  • Something that is representative of all such things in a group. 

  • A person punished as a warning to others. 

  • A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model. 

  • An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule. 

verb
  • To be illustrated or exemplified (by). 

How often have the words demonstration and example occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )