Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
earn .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To grieve; to feel sad.
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- verb intransitive, obsolete To grieve; to feel sad.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gleobeames ⁊ gome inouh liues wil ⁊ eche pleie. þereuore leoue lefdi long hit þuncheð us wrecchen vort þu of þisse erme liue to ðe suluen us fecche. we ne muwen neuer habben fulle gledschipe.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Wherefore we have heard with much displeasure that in those places of our diocese where there are convents of nuns and congregations of virgins, ordinary lodgings for the soldiery have been established, called lonely houses (_case erme_), where they are suffered or obliged to dwell through long periods. '
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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This corresponds to the French ” ion. nacioun, nation. abdicacioun, abdication. erme, desert. asserma, to dry up. assermacioun, thirst, dryness. ” is (masc.), ” isso (fem.).
Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901
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HewμeeÆee efnμesye veke¿es. mJemleele} er Jemlet efo} erme lejer Æee} s}. "
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HewμeeÆee efnμesye veke¿es. mJemleele} er Jemlet efo} erme lejer Æee} s}. "
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A Samuele ad capciviutem plurimi erme Ptophetz DEI) velcemenidmul (x.
Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ... Christoph Kotter , Krystyna Poniatowska 1657
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To grieve; to feel sad.
May 12, 2008