swoonn.

Brit.

/swuːn/, U.S.

/swun/

Forms: Middle English northern suun, squowen, squowin, Middle English swon-e, swoun-e, swown-e, (Middle English swon, swonne ?, suoun), Middle English–1500s swone, swown, Middle English–1600s swoun(e, swowne, (1500s Scottish swne, 1600s swoone), 1600s– swoon.

Etymology: Originally in phrase in swoune , etc. (sense 1), alteration of a swoun, a-swoon adv.; otherwise < swoon v. Compare the parallel swow n. and aswow adj.In the following quot. 1682 the spelling swoon is used where the rhyme requires swound.1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 16 Thus spoke our Lover whining, plain and round, And clos'd her speech with an half-dying swoon.

1. The action of swooning or the condition of one who has swooned; syncope.

a. Without article, in to fall, lie in (occasionally on, of) swoon. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning

swimeOE

swowingc1000

swooningc1290

swoonc1330

soundingc1380

swelteringc1440

sweltingc1460

swalming1487

swounding1570

syncopization1598

fainting1601

lipothymy1603

defection1615

dereliction1647

swebbing1668

swound1880

greyout1942

c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 557 Adoun he fel a-swounie; & when he gan to dawei [etc.].

c1386 G. Chaucer Doctor's Tale 245 And with that word she fil aswowne [v.rr. on swoune, on swoun, a swoun, in swoune] anon.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 310 For sorwe a swoune [v.r. aswoune] he overthrew, That noman wiste in him no lif. [For later examples see a-swoon adv.]

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7289 Þai salle..deghe ever-mare lyfand with-alle, Als men dose þat we se in swowne falle.1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 249 And with that word sche gan doun falle On [v.rr. Of, Inne] swoune.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11722 Þai fell in suun al þat þar war.a1400–50 Wars Alex. (Dublin) 734 [She] drowpys doun in swone.c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1180 A longeyng heuy me strok in swone [rhymes regioun, etc.].c1440 Generydes 4095 Clarionas.. fylle down in swoune [rhyme doon = down].1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) iv. 19 They were bothe fal in swone.a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1878 in Poems (1981) 73 That bludie bowcheour beit thay birdis doun..Sum with ane staf he straik to eirth on swoun.1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 408 Helmes wer hewin to the schulderis doun, Rycht mony suelt and mony fell in swoun.a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 208 The king..was sa brucklit in his harnis witht the fall that he fell in deidlie swne.1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 21 As one in swoon, To whom life creeps back in the form of death.

b. In particularized use: A fainting-fit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning > a faint or swoon

swimeOE

swooningc1290

swowa1325

swooningc1330

swoon1390

soundc1400

trancec1405

sweamc1415

swoundc1440

sweltingc1460

swarf1488

dwalm?a1513

sounding ecstasy?1565

sounding1580

pasme1591

death1596

lipothymy1603

deliquium1620

delique1645

fainting fit1714

drow1727

faint-fit1795

faint1808

blacking out1930

blackout1934

greyout1942

pass-out1946

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 371 I was out of mi swoune affraied.

14.. Sir Beues 2753 + 77 (MSS. S. & N.) Of his swon sir B. awooke.

c1440 Generydes 2359 He bledde so fast that he felle in A swonne [rhyme sone].

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) iv. 20 After that they had layen in a swoune a goode while.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxvii. 231 They came to Esclaramonde, who lay on y^e erth in a swone.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xviii. 82 And falling in a dead swowne, sinketh downe with horror.

1653 R. Lovell in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 36 M^r D[ean] Cosens, as hee was readeing evening prayer, fell down in a swoone.

1664 H. More Apol. 503 No heart could escape from being struck into a swoun at the sight of so overcoming a Beauty and Majesty.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 13 I was so surprised, that I fell down in a Swoon.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Eleänore (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 100 Then, as in a swoon, With dinning sound my ears are rife.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vii. 195 The knight, awakening from his swoon, struggled violently..to escape.

figurative.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. viii. 498 A swoune meane-while did Rome sustaine.1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 66 I wonder..in what swoun their Reasons lay, to content themselves..with such a..ridiculous reason as Plutarch alleadgeth for it. a1677 I. Barrow Of Love of God (1680) 195 Anger, (that swoon of reason, transporting a man out of himself).1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. xiv. 39 Like a sulphurous hill, Which on a sudden from its snows has shaken The swoon of ages.

†2. A (deep or sound) sleep. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > an instance or period of > deep or sound

swoon1590

treacle sleep1841

sound1867

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A8^v A trickling streame..Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne Of swarming Bees, did cast him in a swowne.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vi. 7 Her selfe she layd To sleepe, the whiles a gentle slombring swowne Vpon her fell.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

swoonv.

Brit.

/swuːn/, U.S.

/swun/

Forms: α. [Middle English suowene], Middle English swowene, swoȝene, -y, swouȝne. β. Middle English–1500s swoune, swowne, (Middle English suoun, squoen ?, swoune, Middle English sqwowne), 1600s swoun, 1600s, 1800s swown. γ. Middle English swone, (Middle English suone, swoyne), Middle English–1600s swoone, 1600s– swoon.

Etymology: Middle English swoȝene , swoȝeny , swowene , possibly a back-formation < swoȝning , swowening , swooning n. Three types were developed: (1) swoune , swowne , which would have given modern swown /swaʊn/; (2) swōne , arising from loss of ȝ or w , whence the modern swoon ; compare Middle English woe for woȝe (Old English wógian ), and wooe by the side of wowe in Spenser; (3) sounye , soune , whence sound v.⁴

1. intransitive.

a. To fall into a fainting-fit; to faint.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > break down, collapse, or faint

fail?c1225

swoonc1290

languisha1325

talmc1325

sinkc1400

faintc1440

droopc1540

collapse1879

crock1893

to flake (out)1942

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > lose consciousness [verb (intransitive)] > faint or swoon

swotherc1000

swowa1250

swoonc1290

sweltc1330

trance1340

to fall on, in swowa1375

swapc1386

sound1393

dwelea1400

swaya1400

faintc1440

owmawt1440

swalmc1440

sweamc1440

syncopize1490

dwalm?a1513

swarf1513

swound1530

cothe1567

sweb1599

to go away1655

to die away1707

go1768

sink1769

sile1790

to pass out1915

to black out1935

α.

c1290 Mary Magd. 375 in S. Eng. Leg. 473 Ȝif is moder mouwe ȝuyt of hire suoweningue awake.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1841 Þe geaunt..in his armes so hym wente þat Gogmagog gan to swowene.

c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 513 Mony swouȝninge lay þorw schindringe of scharpe.

a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 5841 Þe kyng swoȝened for þt wounde.

c1400 St. Alexius (Trin. MS.) 222 To swoȝeny he be-gan.

β. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 467 Adoun he fel and swoune bigan.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 104 Many a louely lady..Swouned and swelted for sorwe of dethes dyntes.c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Thisbe. 872 And how sche lyth & swounnyth [v.rr. swowneth, souneth, suowneth, swouneth, swonyth, sowneth] on the grounde.1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 4816 Wych shal..Maken hyre in Terys drowne, And offte sythes for to swowne.1448–9 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes 399 As offtyn sqwowny [n] g, as I remembyr her bryght face.?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 47 With that I seme for to swoune, thought I na swerf tak.1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor v. i. sig. L^v Take my armour quickly, twill make him swoone I feare. 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster ii. ii. sig. D^v Sometimes froward, and then frowning, Sometimes sickish, and then swowning . 1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs iii. xx. 19 in Purple Island So down he swowning sinks.a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 164 Those faint hearts that are ready to swoun away for the scratch of a finger.1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xvi. 151 You pray that your Granny may have strength enough left her at the last..to get up from her bed and run and hide herself, and swown to death in a hole, sooner than [etc.].γ. c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 169 (Shirley MS.) Sheo weopeþe wayleþe swooneþe [v.rr. swoneth, swouneth, swowneth] pytously.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 14287 Till hir broþer graue scho gas, þar forto suoun [Fairf. squoen, Trin. Cambr. swowne].1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) xvii. 648 Sum dede sum hurt & sum swonand.1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxi. 466 Reynawde..was swoninge for sorowe.a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2181 in Poems (1981) 83 He..hit him with sic will vpon the heid Quhill neir he swonit and swelt in to that steid.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8046 [Bresaid] ay swonit in swyme, as ho swelt wold.1595 R. Johnson Seauen Champions (1608) 60 His joy so exceeded that he swooned in his daughters bosome.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. iii. 159 Many will swoon when they do look on bloud. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 457 He said, and, swooning, sunk upon the ground.1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. x. 101 This lassitude at last degenerates into a proneness to swoon.1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) 130 Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swoon'd, nor utter'd cry.1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. v. 59 If a girl..swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass.

b. figurative said of natural phenomena.

ΚΠ

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 17 Strange ministrant of undescribed sounds, That come a swooning over hollow grounds.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters i, in Poems (new ed.) 108 All round the coast the languid air did swoon.

1875 H. W. Longfellow Amalfi in Birds of Passage iv. 80 All the landscape seems to swoon In the happy afternoon.

1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy iii. viii A sudden sense of some strange, subtle perfume..came swooning over him.

c. To sink to or into a less active condition or a state of rest.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > be inactive [verb (intransitive)] > become inactive

sweveOE

quiesce1645

subside1726

swoon1821

lull1850

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 75 Till morn's long streaking shadows lose their tails, And cooling winds swoon into faultering gales.

1871 D. G. Rossetti Card-dealer in Poems i Though its splendour swoon Into the silence languidly As a tune into a tune.

1887 H. Caine Deemster III. xxxix. 180 The light was gone and another day had swooned to another night.

2. passive. To fall into a swoon; chiefly past participle or participial adjective: In a swoon.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [adjective] > fainting or in a swoon

swownc1000

deadc1369

swoonc1450

swounding1570

deficient1608

tranced1608

sounding1621

swooning1646

fainted1847

to go out like a light1909

c1450 Mirk's Festial 206 Scho nys not dede, but swownyd [v.r. sownyd] for drede.

1795 A. Hughes Jemima II. 175 Rosina..was swooned away in Levet's arms.

1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 11 He.., lighting on the printless verdure, turn'd To the swoon'd serpent.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. vi. 269 She lies swooned on a paillasse.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	swoon
释义	swoonn. Brit. /swuːn/, U.S. /swun/ Forms: Middle English northern suun, squowen, squowin, Middle English swon-e, swoun-e, swown-e, (Middle English swon, swonne ?, suoun), Middle English–1500s swone, swown, Middle English–1600s swoun(e, swowne, (1500s Scottish swne, 1600s swoone), 1600s– swoon. Etymology: Originally in phrase in swoune , etc. (sense 1), alteration of a swoun, a-swoon adv.; otherwise < swoon v. Compare the parallel swow n. and aswow adj.In the following quot. 1682 the spelling swoon is used where the rhyme requires swound.1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 16 Thus spoke our Lover whining, plain and round, And clos'd her speech with an half-dying swoon. 1. The action of swooning or the condition of one who has swooned; syncope. a. Without article, in to fall, lie in (occasionally on, of) swoon. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning swimeOE swowingc1000 swooningc1290 swoonc1330 soundingc1380 swelteringc1440 sweltingc1460 swalming1487 swounding1570 syncopization1598 fainting1601 lipothymy1603 defection1615 dereliction1647 swebbing1668 swound1880 greyout1942 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 557 Adoun he fel a-swounie; & when he gan to dawei [etc.]. c1386 G. Chaucer Doctor's Tale 245 And with that word she fil aswowne [v.rr. on swoune, on swoun, a swoun, in swoune] anon. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 310 For sorwe a swoune [v.r. aswoune] he overthrew, That noman wiste in him no lif. [For later examples see a-swoon adv.] 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 7289 Þai salle..deghe ever-mare lyfand with-alle, Als men dose þat we se in swowne falle.1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 249 And with that word sche gan doun falle On [v.rr. Of, Inne] swoune.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11722 Þai fell in suun al þat þar war.a1400–50 Wars Alex. (Dublin) 734 [She] drowpys doun in swone.c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1180 A longeyng heuy me strok in swone [rhymes regioun, etc.].c1440 Generydes 4095 Clarionas.. fylle down in swoune [rhyme doon = down].1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) iv. 19 They were bothe fal in swone.a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Preaching of Swallow l. 1878 in Poems (1981) 73 That bludie bowcheour beit thay birdis doun..Sum with ane staf he straik to eirth on swoun.1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 408 Helmes wer hewin to the schulderis doun, Rycht mony suelt and mony fell in swoun.a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 208 The king..was sa brucklit in his harnis witht the fall that he fell in deidlie swne.1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 21 As one in swoon, To whom life creeps back in the form of death. b. In particularized use: A fainting-fit. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [noun] > fainting or swooning > a faint or swoon swimeOE swooningc1290 swowa1325 swooningc1330 swoon1390 soundc1400 trancec1405 sweamc1415 swoundc1440 sweltingc1460 swarf1488 dwalm?a1513 sounding ecstasy?1565 sounding1580 pasme1591 death1596 lipothymy1603 deliquium1620 delique1645 fainting fit1714 drow1727 faint-fit1795 faint1808 blacking out1930 blackout1934 greyout1942 pass-out1946 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 371 I was out of mi swoune affraied. 14.. Sir Beues 2753 + 77 (MSS. S. & N.) Of his swon sir B. awooke. c1440 Generydes 2359 He bledde so fast that he felle in A swonne [rhyme sone]. 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) iv. 20 After that they had layen in a swoune a goode while. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxvii. 231 They came to Esclaramonde, who lay on y^e erth in a swone. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xviii. 82 And falling in a dead swowne, sinketh downe with horror. 1653 R. Lovell in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 36 M^r D[ean] Cosens, as hee was readeing evening prayer, fell down in a swoone. 1664 H. More Apol. 503 No heart could escape from being struck into a swoun at the sight of so overcoming a Beauty and Majesty. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 13 I was so surprised, that I fell down in a Swoon. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Eleänore (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 100 Then, as in a swoon, With dinning sound my ears are rife. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vii. 195 The knight, awakening from his swoon, struggled violently..to escape. figurative.1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. viii. 498 A swoune meane-while did Rome sustaine.1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 66 I wonder..in what swoun their Reasons lay, to content themselves..with such a..ridiculous reason as Plutarch alleadgeth for it. View more context for this quotationa1677 I. Barrow Of Love of God (1680) 195 Anger, (that swoon of reason, transporting a man out of himself).1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. xiv. 39 Like a sulphurous hill, Which on a sudden from its snows has shaken The swoon of ages. †2. A (deep or sound) sleep. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > an instance or period of > deep or sound swoon1590 treacle sleep1841 sound1867 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A8^v A trickling streame..Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne Of swarming Bees, did cast him in a swowne. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vi. 7 Her selfe she layd To sleepe, the whiles a gentle slombring swowne Vpon her fell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). swoonv. Brit. /swuːn/, U.S. /swun/ Forms: α. [Middle English suowene], Middle English swowene, swoȝene, -y, swouȝne. β. Middle English–1500s swoune, swowne, (Middle English suoun, squoen ?, swoune, Middle English sqwowne), 1600s swoun, 1600s, 1800s swown. γ. Middle English swone, (Middle English suone, swoyne), Middle English–1600s swoone, 1600s– swoon. Etymology: Middle English swoȝene , swoȝeny , swowene , possibly a back-formation < swoȝning , swowening , swooning n. Three types were developed: (1) swoune , swowne , which would have given modern swown /swaʊn/; (2) swōne , arising from loss of ȝ or w , whence the modern swoon ; compare Middle English woe for woȝe (Old English wógian ), and wooe by the side of wowe in Spenser; (3) sounye , soune , whence sound v.⁴ 1. intransitive. a. To fall into a fainting-fit; to faint. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > become weary or exhausted [verb (intransitive)] > break down, collapse, or faint fail?c1225 swoonc1290 languisha1325 talmc1325 sinkc1400 faintc1440 droopc1540 collapse1879 crock1893 to flake (out)1942 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > lose consciousness [verb (intransitive)] > faint or swoon swotherc1000 swowa1250 swoonc1290 sweltc1330 trance1340 to fall on, in swowa1375 swapc1386 sound1393 dwelea1400 swaya1400 faintc1440 owmawt1440 swalmc1440 sweamc1440 syncopize1490 dwalm?a1513 swarf1513 swound1530 cothe1567 sweb1599 to go away1655 to die away1707 go1768 sink1769 sile1790 to pass out1915 to black out1935 α. c1290 Mary Magd. 375 in S. Eng. Leg. 473 Ȝif is moder mouwe ȝuyt of hire suoweningue awake. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1841 Þe geaunt..in his armes so hym wente þat Gogmagog gan to swowene. c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 513 Mony swouȝninge lay þorw schindringe of scharpe. a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 5841 Þe kyng swoȝened for þt wounde. c1400 St. Alexius (Trin. MS.) 222 To swoȝeny he be-gan. β. c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 467 Adoun he fel and swoune bigan.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 104 Many a louely lady..Swouned and swelted for sorwe of dethes dyntes.c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Thisbe. 872 And how sche lyth & swounnyth [v.rr. swowneth, souneth, suowneth, swouneth, swonyth, sowneth] on the grounde.1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 4816 Wych shal..Maken hyre in Terys drowne, And offte sythes for to swowne.1448–9 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes 399 As offtyn sqwowny [n] g, as I remembyr her bryght face.?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 47 With that I seme for to swoune, thought I na swerf tak.1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor v. i. sig. L^v Take my armour quickly, twill make him swoone I feare. View more context for this quotation1602 B. Jonson Poetaster ii. ii. sig. D^v Sometimes froward, and then frowning, Sometimes sickish, and then swowning . View more context for this quotation1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs iii. xx. 19 in Purple Island So down he swowning sinks.a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 164 Those faint hearts that are ready to swoun away for the scratch of a finger.1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xvi. 151 You pray that your Granny may have strength enough left her at the last..to get up from her bed and run and hide herself, and swown to death in a hole, sooner than [etc.].γ. c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 169 (Shirley MS.) Sheo weopeþe wayleþe swooneþe [v.rr. swoneth, swouneth, swowneth] pytously.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 14287 Till hir broþer graue scho gas, þar forto suoun [Fairf. squoen, Trin. Cambr. swowne].1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) xvii. 648 Sum dede sum hurt & sum swonand.1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxi. 466 Reynawde..was swoninge for sorowe.a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2181 in Poems (1981) 83 He..hit him with sic will vpon the heid Quhill neir he swonit and swelt in to that steid.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 8046 [Bresaid] ay swonit in swyme, as ho swelt wold.1595 R. Johnson Seauen Champions (1608) 60 His joy so exceeded that he swooned in his daughters bosome.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iv. iii. 159 Many will swoon when they do look on bloud. View more context for this quotation1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 457 He said, and, swooning, sunk upon the ground.1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. x. 101 This lassitude at last degenerates into a proneness to swoon.1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) 130 Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swoon'd, nor utter'd cry.1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. v. 59 If a girl..swoons within a yard or two of a man's nose, he can see it without a perspective-glass. b. figurative said of natural phenomena. ΚΠ 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 17 Strange ministrant of undescribed sounds, That come a swooning over hollow grounds. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters i, in Poems (new ed.) 108 All round the coast the languid air did swoon. 1875 H. W. Longfellow Amalfi in Birds of Passage iv. 80 All the landscape seems to swoon In the happy afternoon. 1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy iii. viii A sudden sense of some strange, subtle perfume..came swooning over him. c. To sink to or into a less active condition or a state of rest. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > be inactive [verb (intransitive)] > become inactive sweveOE quiesce1645 subside1726 swoon1821 lull1850 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 75 Till morn's long streaking shadows lose their tails, And cooling winds swoon into faultering gales. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Card-dealer in Poems i Though its splendour swoon Into the silence languidly As a tune into a tune. 1887 H. Caine Deemster III. xxxix. 180 The light was gone and another day had swooned to another night. 2. passive. To fall into a swoon; chiefly past participle or participial adjective: In a swoon. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > unconsciousness > [adjective] > fainting or in a swoon swownc1000 deadc1369 swoonc1450 swounding1570 deficient1608 tranced1608 sounding1621 swooning1646 fainted1847 to go out like a light1909 c1450 Mirk's Festial 206 Scho nys not dede, but swownyd [v.r. sownyd] for drede. 1795 A. Hughes Jemima II. 175 Rosina..was swooned away in Levet's arms. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 11 He.., lighting on the printless verdure, turn'd To the swoon'd serpent. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. vi. 269 She lies swooned on a paillasse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1330v.c1290
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