Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
swoon . Compareswound .
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Examples
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But above all things I wonder how the curiosity of wiser heads could pass that great and indisputable Miracle, the cessation of Oracles; and in what swoun their Reasons lay, to content themselves and sit down with such a far-fetchd and ridiculous reason as Plutarch alleadgeth for it.
Paras 36-70 1909
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But above all things I wonder how the curiosity of wiser heads could pass that great and indisputable Miracle, the cessation of Oracles; and in what swoun their Reasons lay, to content themselves and sit down with such a far-fetch’d and ridiculous reason as Plutarch alleadgeth for it.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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