emmove
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]For emove: compare French émouvoir, Latin emovere. See emotion.
Verb
[edit]emmove (third-person singular simple present emmoves, present participle emmoving, simple past and past participle emmoved)
- (obsolete, transitive) To move; to rouse or excite.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Yet the bold Britonesse was nought ydred, / Though much emmov'd, but stedfast still persevered.