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Amove vs Emove - What's the difference?

amove | emove |

As verbs the difference between amove and emove

is that amove is (obsolete) to set in motion; to stir up, excite or amove can be to remove (a person or thing) from a position while emove is (archaic|poetic) to stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion.

amove

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) amover.

Verb

(amov)
  • (obsolete) To set in motion; to stir up, excite.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
    • Vp-rose Duessa from her resting place, / And to the Paynims lodging comes with silent pace [...] And him amoues with speaches seeming fit [...].

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) amovere.

    Verb

    (amov)
  • To remove (a person or thing) from a position.
  • (legal) To dismiss from an office or station.
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    emove

    English

    Verb

  • (archaic, poetic) To stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion
  • * 1748 , , L:LXVI
    • What brought you to this Seat of Peace and Love?
    While with kind Nature, here amid the Grove,
    We pass’d the harmless Sabbath of our Time,
    What to disturb it could, fell Men, emove
    Your barbarous Hearts? Is Happiness a Crime?
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