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Words found in poetry

This week’s words
swale
swound


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PRONUNCIATION:

(swound or swoond)

MEANING:

noun: A swoon; a fainting fit.
verb intr.: To swoon; to faint.

ETYMOLOGY:

An alteration of Middle English swoun(e), from swounen (to swoon). Earliest documented use: 1440.

USAGE:

“Then like a pawing horse let go,
She made a sudden bound:
It flung the blood into my head,
And I fell down in a swound.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; 1797-98.

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