Brewer's: Emne

Your emne Christen (Bosworth), i.e. your even or fellow Christian. Shakespeare (Hamlet, v. 1) has “your even Christian.” (Anglo-Saxon, Emne-cristen, fellow-Christian.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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