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, “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.