Adverb

(-)

In a swoon.

* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p.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.

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, date=Summer , year=2003 , month= , first= , last= , author=Nicole Louise Reid , coauthors= , title=Honeydew , volume=39 , issue=3 , page=596 , magazine=The Southern Review , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=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. }}