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
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Already, matrons from Manasquan to Massapequa are aswoon over Broadway's newest star.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I liked Louie," said Ted, his cracked-cello voice aswoon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prince comes up accordingly; a personable young fellow; intelligent-looking, self-possessed; makes obeisance to her Majesty, who answers in frosty politeness; and—and Wilhelmina, faint, fasting, sleepless all night, fairly falls aswoon.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Thomas Carlyle
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 Algernon Charles Swinburne
She looked now like an Oread aswoon in the midday heats, pure of thought or dread or memory.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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