† sweveningn.
Obsolete.
Dreaming; a dream.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun]
swevenc897
metingOE
showing?c1225
sweveningc1275
dreamc1300
metels1340
dremels1362
night visiona1382
metreda1393
dreaminga1400
somniation1598
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 19701 He..com to þan kinge þar he lay a sweuekinge [read sweveninge].
a1300 St. Kenelm 116 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 50 A sweueninge þat þe child mette.
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 1 Many men sayn þat in sweueninges Ther nys but fables & lesynges.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4513 Pharaon þe king Sagh in slepe suilk a sueuening.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 759 With þe swoghe of þe see in swefnynge he felle.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vii. 27 Þe seuen deed qwhete eres, whilk kyng Pharao sawe in swefnyng.
1423 Kingis Quair clxxiv Though that my spirit vexit was tofore In sueuenyng, alssone as euer I woke, By twenty fold It was In trouble more.
Derivatives
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [adjective] > dreaming or that dreams
dreaming1552
swevening1570
somnorine1637
sleeping1781
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. x. 12 Dame Dreming, all clad in blak Sabill, With Sweyning Nymphis in cullouris variabill.
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