aswoon

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English

Etymology

From a- +‎ swoon.

Pronunciation

Adverb

aswoon (not comparable)

  1. In a swoon; swooningly.
    • 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 369:
      'This is your daughter whom you so commended / As wife for me; the other on my oath / Shall be my heir as I have long intended, / They are the children of your body, both.' [...] / On hearing this Griselda fell aswoon / In piteous joy, but made recovery / And called her children to her.
    • 2003 Summer, Nicole Louise Reid, “Honeydew”, in The Southern Review, volume 39, number 3, page 596:
      Anyhow, he came right over, and I was near aswoon but breathed real deep and gripped hold of the cash tray and managed not to tumble to the floor-even if the quarters did a little dance in their bin with me tugging to stay up.

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