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a-swoon, advb. phr.|əˈswuːn|
Forms: 4–5 aswoune, aswounne, aswowne, a swowen, a swoun(e, a swown(e, 5 a-swoone, 7– aswoon, a-swoon.
[Also written a swoune, expanded on swoune, and most commonly from 1325 to 1500 in swoune, in swowne, after 1500 in a swown(e, sown(e, swoon; as if f. a prep.1 + swoon n. But as this n. does not otherwise appear in early use, aswowne was perhaps by mistaken analogy for aswown (cf. adowne, adown), aswowen = iswowen, OE. ᵹeswóᵹen; in which case aswoon and aswough are of identical origin: see the latter, and swoon n.]
In a swoon or faint. to fall aswoon: to faint away.
c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 466 And fil to grounde anon And lith aswowne [v.r. a swounne, a swowne, on swoune], deed and lyk a stoon. c1400Rom. Rose 1804 A-swoone I felle, bothe deed & pale. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 217/3 Yf the moder be a swowne of the payne. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 408 Mony fell in swoun. 1637Rutherford Lett. 110 (1862) I. 276 My faith was fallen aswoon and Christ but held up a swooning man's head. 1860S. Dobell in Macm. Mag. Aug. 326 A-swoon With fear. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. III. viii. iii. 15 Wilhelmina, faint, fasting, sleepless all night, fairly falls aswoon. |