swound
Americanverb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of swound
1400–50; late Middle English swounde (v.), variant (with excrescent d ) of swoune to swoon
Example Sentences
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Her head fallen as half in swound, hair and knee swept on the ground, She clung wild to stirrup and foot.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
With that the lady fell in a swound, For a grieved woman, God wot, was she; Lord Phenix he was ready then,395 To take her up so hastily.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
He seemed, when from that swound he woke, A man already touched by Death, As when the stalwart forest oak, Blasted beneath the lightning's stroke Lives on, yet languisheth.
From The Coast of Bohemia by Thomas Nelson Page
Swowne, i, 41, heavy sleep; ix, 52, swoon; swound, v, 19.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
“Yes, my sister; but now aid me to bring him from his swound, and then will I go for a leech.”
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
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