Amove vs Emove - What's the difference?
amove | emove |
(obsolete) To set in motion; to stir up, excite.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
To remove (a person or thing) from a position.
(legal) To dismiss from an office or station.
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(archaic, poetic) To stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion
* 1748 , , L:LXVI
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)- 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)emove
English
Verb
- 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?