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"5": "to please"
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"expansion": "Middle English quemen (“to please”)",
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"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*kwēmijaną",
"4": "",
"5": "to please, be convenient, suit"
},
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"3": "*gʷem-",
"4": "",
"5": "to go, come"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”)",
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"2": "kväma"
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},
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English quemen (“to please”), from Old English cweman, cwēman (“to gratify, satisfy, please”) (compare cweme, cwēme (“pleasant, agreeable, acceptable”) and cwemnes, cwēmnes (“pleasure, satisfaction, mitigation”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāmijan, from Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaną (“to please, be convenient, suit”), from *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”). Compare obsolete Swedish kväma, Danish kvemme. Related to Old English cuman (“come”), English come. Compare also quim.",
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"ref": "1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets",
"text": "Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset",
"text": "On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature",
"text": "Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To please, to satisfy."
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"(obsolete) To please, to satisfy."
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"ref": "1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets",
"text": "Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset",
"text": "On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature",
"text": "Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);",
"type": "quotation"
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"To please, to satisfy."
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