eame

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A form of eam — Uncle.

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nouneame (plural eames)

plural eames

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of eam (“an uncle”).

    Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame.

    1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix

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APA

eame. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eame

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“eame.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eame. Accessed November 3, 2026.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eame,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eame.

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