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

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.

For to make a lawe for to punisshe eny offender except it were more fit to giue other men an ensample to beware to committe suche like offence, whate shuld yt auayle.

From A Supplication for the Beggars by Fish, Simon

But if the mother is not prudent in all ways, what sort of an ensample is she, alas, to the daughters?

From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Pisan, Christin? de

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