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swound
[ swound, swoond ]
swound
/ swaʊnd /
noun
- an archaic or dialect word for swoon
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Her head fallen as half in swound,—hair and knee swept on the ground,— She clung wild to stirrup and foot.
A living comet, whose pestiferous breath Adulterates the virgin aire? with death It laboures: stif'led Nature's in a swound, Ready to dropp into a chaos, round About horror's displai'd; It doth portend, That earth a shoure of stones to heauen shall send,189 And crack the christall globe; the milkly streame Shall in a siluer raine runne out, whose creame Shall choake the gaping earth, wch then shall fry In flames, & of a burning feuer dy.
I conceited I was just goin' to swound; and he looked sa straight at me, like a ghost.”
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.
With that the lords and the company round With a hearty laughter were ready to swound; At last said the lords, "Full well we may see, The bride and the bridegroom's beholden to thee."
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