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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yearn \Yearn\ (y[~e]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yearned}; p. pr &
vb n. {Yearning}.] [Also earn, ern; probably a corruption of
OE ermen to grieve, AS ierman, yrman, or geierman geyrman,
fr earm wretched, poor; akin to D. & G. arm, Icel. armr,
Goth. arms. The y- in English is perhaps due to the AS ge
(see {Y-}).]
To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] ``She laments, sir, for
it that it would yearn your heart to see it.'' --Shak.
It yearns me not if men my garments wear. --Shak.
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