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
The word "ensample" means type, or figure, or illustration.
From And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses by J. Wilbur Chapman
Let us refrain from this subject, remembering how grave and learned theologians, earnest opponents of Predestinarianism, have been reduced to the extreme of perplexity when confronted with the ensample of Pharaoh.
From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
And he was an ensample to young men which should be fain, by hard swinking, to stuff their pates with as much high learning and occult lore as he had under his own bonnet.
From The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson
His memory shall continue to be praised and blessed, for he was beloved of God, an ensample to us all, and his own stern judge.
From The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by J. P. Arthur
