swevening
swevening · swevenings
A dreamingA dreaming.
/ˈswɛvə.nɪŋ/
Meaning
1 senses(obsolete, regional)A dreaming.
He saw distorted, dancing shapes in a nightmarish swevening.
Origin
From Middle English swevenyng, from sweven (“dream”) and thus equivalent to sweven + -ing.From Middle English swevenyng, from sweven (“dream”) and thus equivalent to sweven + -ing. Germanic cognates include Danish søvn (“sleep”), Icelandic svefn (“sleep”), Norwegian søvn (“sleep”), Swedish sömn (“sleep”).
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