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
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
An ensample whiche proveth that horsemen with staves, cannot prevaile against footemen with Pikes, and what great advauntage the armed have, againste the unarmed.
From Machiavelli, Volume I by Dacres, Edward
The viij day tok Jhesu hys name, That saved mankynd fro syn and shame, And circumsysed was for no blame, But for ensample of meknesse.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.
One need not consider the wild unwisdom of it; but in the astounding courage and endurance of it, I hold there is lesson and ensample for the bravest man in British history.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)
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