Plural of ensample or third person singular of the verb ensample; archaic examples or instances.
From 'ensample' + '-s' for plural or third person singular; ultimately from Old French 'ensample' and Latin 'exemplum'.
Medieval writers loved collecting 'ensamples'—cautionary tales and examples of virtue and vice—as a way to teach lessons before modern schools existed!
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