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The word "gratia" (= favor, gratitude, etc) plus the genitive case means "for the sake of", "for the finality of", "in order to give". So, "exempli gratia" means "in the fashion of an example", "as an example", "for the sake of an example". It's almost a way to make a favor to someone else :)

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