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Definition of Swooning
1. Adjective. Weak and likely to lose consciousness. "Light-headed from lack of sleep"
Similar to: Ill, Sick
Derivative terms: Faint, Faintness, Lightheadedness
Definition of Swooning
1. Verb. (present participle of swoon) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swooning
1. swoon [v] - See also: swoon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swooning
Literary usage of Swooning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The System of the Vedânta: According to Bâdarâyaṇa's Brahma-sûtras and by Paul Deussen (1912)
"Therefore swooning is half deep sleep, not in the sense that it is a half union
with Brahman, but in so far as it is intermediate between deep sleep and ..."
2. The Library Magazine (1887)
"Somebody's hands were said to be "Made of a red rose swooning into white."
This seemed "all wery capital," like matrimony to Mr. Weller, till I found, ..."
3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"Round and round the dancers whirl'd, Shriller, louder, the Pipers skirl'd Till
the soul seem'd swooning into sound, And all creation was whirling round. ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... which by the arteries are transported to all the other parts; if the spirits
cease, then life ceaseth, as in a syncope or swooning. ..."
5. Antonina: Or, The Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"... sep- ^g/stance and revenge, he fell swooning - 0 the arms of the officers of
the Senate who ""flu'1/'11*3 A" One of them was immediately dismissed, ..."
6. Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine by Joseph Laurie (1848)
"swooning. Syncope. Individuals of weak nerves and delicate constitutions,
particularly of the female sex, are frequently subject to fainting fits, which, ..."
7. The System of the Vedânta: According to Bâdarâyaṇa's Brahma-sûtras and by Paul Deussen (1912)
"Therefore swooning is half deep sleep, not in the sense that it is a half union
with Brahman, but in so far as it is intermediate between deep sleep and ..."
8. The Library Magazine (1887)
"Somebody's hands were said to be "Made of a red rose swooning into white."
This seemed "all wery capital," like matrimony to Mr. Weller, till I found, ..."
9. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"Round and round the dancers whirl'd, Shriller, louder, the Pipers skirl'd Till
the soul seem'd swooning into sound, And all creation was whirling round. ..."
10. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... which by the arteries are transported to all the other parts; if the spirits
cease, then life ceaseth, as in a syncope or swooning. ..."
11. Antonina: Or, The Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"... sep- ^g/stance and revenge, he fell swooning - 0 the arms of the officers of
the Senate who ""flu'1/'11*3 A" One of them was immediately dismissed, ..."
12. Homoeopathic Domestic Medicine by Joseph Laurie (1848)
"swooning. Syncope. Individuals of weak nerves and delicate constitutions,
particularly of the female sex, are frequently subject to fainting fits, which, ..."
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