swown
Middle English
Verb
swown
- swoon
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Noun
swown
- swoon
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Prologe of the Wyf of Bathe.
- And whan he saugh so stille that I lay,
- He was agast, and would have fled away.
- Til atte last out of my swown I brayde.
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Prologe of the Wyf of Bathe.