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

In the meantime Wenceslaus, evidently well pleased with himself, continued to set his people a godly ensample.

From From a Terrace in Prague by Baker, Lieut.-Col. B. Granville

Angelo thought a moment and answered, humbly, "I give them an ensample of holiness."

From The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Van Dyke, Henry

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.

Schoolmasters, except religious and elementary, they may cease to be, perhaps; the pattern and ensample of purity and righteousness they will always remain.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)