aswoon
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of aswoon
1300–50; Middle English aswowe ( n ), aswowne, alteration (with initial vowel taken as a- 1 ) of i swone ( n ), in swoue ( n ), reanalysis, as a prepositional phrase, of iswouen, Old English geswōgen fainted; see y-, swoon
Example Sentences
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"I liked Louie," said Ted, his cracked-cello voice aswoon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Already, matrons from Manasquan to Massapequa are aswoon over Broadway's newest star.
From Time Magazine Archive
And onward still, not failing nor aswoon, Across the Asôpus like a beaming moon The great word leapt, and on Kithairon's height Uproused a new relay of racing light.
From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Murray, Gilbert
Quoth the other, "Thou knowest not what befell me, whilst thou wert aswoon, and how I only escaped death by beguiling the eunuch."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by Payne, John
Now not long Shall we sustain or sink aswoon from it: It has but left a day or two to die.
From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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