Definition of Swouning

1. swoun [v] - See also: swoun

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swouning

swottiest
swottiness
swotting
swottings
swotty
swough
swoughs
swoun
swound
swounded
swounding
swounds
swoune
swouned
swounes
swouning (current term)
swouns
swow
swown
swownd
swownds
swowne
swownes
swowns
swozzle
swozzles
swum
swung
swung dash
swung dashes

Literary usage of Swouning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"God good in preserving An in a milke bowle, and Jane from swouning who let her fall in, and, John in falling from y* top of y* schoole staires ; God give ..."

2. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1827)
"... trembling, sweating, swouning, &c. c All their senses are troubled: they think they see,hear, smell, and touch that which they do not, ..."

3. The Diary of the Rev. Ralph Josselin, 1616-1683 by Ralph Josselin, Ernest Hockliffe (1908)
"God good in preserving An in a milke bowle, and Jane from swouning who let her fall in, and, John in falling from ye top of ye schoole staires ; God give ..."

4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Hir oft swouning, with faces dead and pale, Thereof I might make a new tale, ... The teares new distilling on hir fares, And so swouning in mauy sundry ..."

5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and after hire swouning She both hire yonge children to hire called], ... thing it was to see Hire swouning, and hire humble vois to here ! ..."

6. The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1845)
"... and after hire swouning She both hire yonge children to hire calleth, ... thing it was to see Hire swouning, and hire humble vois to here! ..."

7. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"God good in preserving An in a milke bowle, and Jane from swouning who let her fall in, and, John in falling from y* top of y* schoole staires ; God give ..."

8. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1827)
"... trembling, sweating, swouning, &c. c All their senses are troubled: they think they see,hear, smell, and touch that which they do not, ..."

9. The Diary of the Rev. Ralph Josselin, 1616-1683 by Ralph Josselin, Ernest Hockliffe (1908)
"God good in preserving An in a milke bowle, and Jane from swouning who let her fall in, and, John in falling from ye top of ye schoole staires ; God give ..."

10. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Hir oft swouning, with faces dead and pale, Thereof I might make a new tale, ... The teares new distilling on hir fares, And so swouning in mauy sundry ..."

11. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and after hire swouning She both hire yonge children to hire called], ... thing it was to see Hire swouning, and hire humble vois to here ! ..."

12. The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1845)
"... and after hire swouning She both hire yonge children to hire calleth, ... thing it was to see Hire swouning, and hire humble vois to here! ..."

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