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In order to warn or intimidate others (especially by making an example of someone or something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ironic
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History
Unadapted borrowing from French pour (preposition) encourager (verb) les pl (article) autres pl (adjective) (literally “in order to encourage the others”), as used French writer Voltaire in 1759 in his satire Candide, in reference to the execution of Admiral John Byng.
