emmove

English

Etymology

For emove: compare French émouvoir, Latin emovere. See emotion.

Verb

emmove (third-person singular simple present emmoves, present participle emmoving, simple past and past participle emmoved)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To move; to rouse or excite.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
      Yet the bold Britonesse was nought ydred, / Though much emmov'd, but stedfast still persevered.
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