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(obsolete) eagerly, heartily, gladly, willingly, earnestly. quotations
Who was so hardie and so stern? Tel me now, I pray you yern
1865, Frederick James Furnivall, A Royal Historie of the Excellent Knight Generides
All the people cried yernː God Master, now defend thy bairn.
c. 1515, unknown, The Buke of the Sevyne Sagis
The black swarm ower the fields walks yerne
1513, Gavin Douglas, The Eneados
third-person singular simple present yerns, present participle yerning, simple past and past participle yerned
Obsolete form of yearn. examples