a-swoonadv.

/əˈswuːn/

Forms: Middle English aswoune, aswounne, aswowne, a swowen, a swoun(e, a swown(e, Middle English a-swoone, 1600s– aswoon, a-swoon.

Etymology: 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 < a prep.¹ + swoon n. But as this noun does not otherwise appear in early use, aswowne was perhaps by mistaken analogy for aswown (compare adowne , adown ), aswowen = iswowen , Old English geswógen ; in which case aswoon and aswow adj. are of identical origin: see the latter, and swoon n.

In a swoon or faint. to fall aswoon: to faint away.

c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 466 And fil to grounde anon And lith aswowne [v.r. a swounne, a swowne, on swoune], deed and lyk a stoon.

c1400 Rom. Rose 1804 A-swoone I felle, bothe deed & pale.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 217/3 Yf the moder be a swowne of the payne.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 408 Mony fell in swoun.

1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. cx. 276 My faith was fallen aswoon and Christ but held up a swooning man's head.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. iii. 314 Wilhelmina, faint, fasting, sleepless all night, fairly falls aswoon.

1860 S. T. Dobell in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 326 A-swoon With fear.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	a-swoon
释义	a-swoonadv. /əˈswuːn/ Forms: Middle English aswoune, aswounne, aswowne, a swowen, a swoun(e, a swown(e, Middle English a-swoone, 1600s– aswoon, a-swoon. Etymology: 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 < a prep.¹ + swoon n. But as this noun does not otherwise appear in early use, aswowne was perhaps by mistaken analogy for aswown (compare adowne , adown ), aswowen = iswowen , Old English geswógen ; in which case aswoon and aswow adj. are of identical origin: see the latter, and swoon n. In a swoon or faint. to fall aswoon: to faint away. Π c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 466 And fil to grounde anon And lith aswowne [v.r. a swounne, a swowne, on swoune], deed and lyk a stoon. c1400 Rom. Rose 1804 A-swoone I felle, bothe deed & pale. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 217/3 Yf the moder be a swowne of the payne. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 408 Mony fell in swoun. 1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. cx. 276 My faith was fallen aswoon and Christ but held up a swooning man's head. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. iii. 314 Wilhelmina, faint, fasting, sleepless all night, fairly falls aswoon. 1860 S. T. Dobell in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 326 A-swoon With fear. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c1386
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