ensample
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ensample
1200–50; Middle English < Old French, variant ( en- en- 1 replacing es- ) of essample < Old French < Latin exemplum example
Example Sentences
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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
Veriliest, I wis not what he had done so much worser than other men, that so awesome an ensample should be made of him.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
Spenser has among other passages And of fair Britomart ensample take, That was as true in love as turtle to her make.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
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 Simon Fish
History showeth no ensample of a man so vile since the Emperor Alexander removed his shadow from before the tub of Diogenes.'
From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford
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