ensample

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Arguing that "mankind cannot be made good under compulsion," he quoted against Prohibition Chaucer's reference to the village parson: To drawen folk to heven by fairnesse By good ensample, this way his bisy-nesse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our morning walk in his garden will serve as an ensample.

From The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec by McIlwraith, Jean Newton

Did not Paul's exhortation to Timothy look toward this as well, when he besought him to "be an ensample in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity"?

From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.

The moral of the old tale is clear—that all virtue without charity is nothing worth; and that of virtue without charity, the Stoic's cold renunciation is the chief type and ensample.

From Apologia Diffidentis by Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock)

To drawen folk to heven, with fairenesse, By good ensample, was his besinesse.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John