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Weems

[weemz]
–noun
Mason Locke (“Parson Weems”), 1759–1825, U.S. clergyman and biographer.
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Weems   (wēmz)   
American clergyman and writer known for his laudatory fictionalized biography of George Washington (1800), a later edition of which contains the story of Washington chopping down a cherry tree.
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