Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To swoon.
- noun A swoon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb Prov. Eng. or Archaic See
swoon , v. & n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic : alternative form of
swoon - verb archaic : alternative form of
swoon
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Examples
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In this ice-sounding, noise similizes the assault: swound is a ghost of sound,
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Like noises in a swound is not after anything so mundane as mimesis.
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It was a very hard seat which Mr. Jeffreys had vacated, and her ladyship, after sitting there over two hours, nodding asleep a good part of the time, began to feel internal sinkings and flutterings which presaged what she called a "swound," and necessitated recourse to a crystal flask of strong waters which she had prudently brought in her muff.
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And (we may well wonder in reflex) what the hell is that swound flaunted for reference?
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For his retro-ballad of 1798, Coleridge recalls swound as a forgotten sound, an archaeology unearthed: it's swoon old-form (same etymology), [14] and (even better!) a variant of sound.
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Children, shee fell downe in a swound uppon the shore.
The Decameron 2004
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He sits all the time like an old woman in a swound.
Uncle Silas 2003
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Sorrow and rage, shame, and his honors pride, Choking his soule, madly compeld him raue, Vntil his rage with vigor did confound His heauie hart; and left him in a swound.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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A silence that was like a swound fell on the instant, and the light within went out at a puff.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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What was in my mind most when I was not altogether in the swound of wearied flesh was the spae-wife's story of the girl in
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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