Assoon vs Aswoon - What's the difference?
assoon | aswoon |
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* 1661: Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
(obsolete) As soon as might be; immediately; forthwith.
* 1340: Richard Rolle of Hampole, The Prick of Conscience
In a swoon.
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p.369:
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As adverbs the difference between assoon and aswoon
is that assoon is an archaic spelling of lang=en while aswoon is in a swoon.assoon
English
Adverb
(head)- It was placed there assoon as you began to look upon the Wall's small unevennesses.
- Thus shall end the dignity of Rome; and assoon after shall come the Antichrist.
References
*aswoon
English
Adverb
(-)- '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.