pour encourager les autres

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  1. In order to warn or intimidate others (especially by making an example of someone or something). ironic
    — Whenever trouble threatened, Avitabile hanged a few of the citizens from the walls of Government House pour encourager les autres; and when trouble did occur, he doubled the hangings and had a daily roster for suspension with a next-for-the-noose column.

词源

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.
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