swound

American  

[swound, swoond] / swaʊnd, swund /

verb (used without object)

Archaic.

1. swoon.

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swound British  

/ swaʊnd /

noun

1. an archaic or dialect word for swoon

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Etymology

Origin of swound

1400–50; late Middle English swounde (v.), variant (with excrescent d ) of swoune to swoon

Example Sentences

The bishop feeleth grief profound To see Sir Roland in a swound.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Black, Robert

Therefore my Hope arose From out her swound and gazed upon Thy face.

From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna

Now at these strange voices sounding from under the cloth Hannah was thunderstruck a’most into a swound; and it was just at this time that the horse moved on. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Hardy, Thomas

Then just against the Harrow Road I made one desperate bound— A leprous lamp-post and myself Lay mingled in a swound!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 by Various

She was near falling in a swound when she saw this, and wrung her hands and cried out with her Saviour, "My God, my God! why hast thou forsaken me!"

From Mary Schweidler, the amber witch : the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady