sweven
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sweven
First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English swefn; akin to Old Norse sofa “to sleep,” Latin somnus, Greek hýpnos “sleep”
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And eke a sweven* on a night he mette,** *dream **dreamed Of which he was so proud, and eke so fain,* *glad That he in vengeance all his hearte set.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
Joseph saw another sweven and told to his father and brethren: Methought I saw in my sleep the sun, the moon, and eleven stars worship me.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
All that heard of the sweven said it was a token of great battle.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
And ne'er was seen by poet, in a sweven, An eye like thine, a face so fair to see As that which makes the sunlight sweet to me.
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay
That with thy firebrand dauntest *when thee lest,* *when you please* That madest me this sweven* for to mette, *dream Be thou my help in this, for thou may'st best!
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
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