exemplary vs normative

exemplary

adj
  • Serving as a warning; monitory. 

  • Providing an example or illustration. 

  • Deserving honour, respect and admiration. 

  • Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect. 

normative

adj
  • Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm. 

  • Conforming to a norm or norms. 

  • Of or pertaining to a norm or standard. 

noun
  • A regulation imposed to preserve a norm. 

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