commove
English
Etymology
From Middle English commoeven, from Old French commovoir.
Verb
commove (third-person singular simple present commoves, present participle commoving, simple past and past participle commoved)
- (dated, transitive) To move violently; to agitate, excite or rouse
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
- Hereupon Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: "Learning, quotha!" said he; "I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!"
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Latin
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