Examples
“All that heard of the sweven said it was a token of great battle.”
“And then she said: Sir, hast thou seen the sweven that I have seen?”
“But to meet God! And 'tis no sweven, [dream] ne fallacy, this dread undeadliness [immortality] -- it is real.”
“So she started like one frightened and a moment after she threw herself upon her husband and cried, "Say me, do I view thee in vision or really in the flesh?" whereto he replied, "In the world of sense and no sweven is this.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sweven’.
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Anglish
Words that can replace Latinates.
frosent, gainsay, fremd, inrush, frain, huru, wordbook, wordstock, byspel, elfshine, infaru, glam and 95 more...
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Devans00's Wonder Words
Words that catch my fancy. Make me wish I was clever enough to work them into conversation without upsetting people.
sweven, combat nap, junior moment, smithereens, requel, interesting, ityf, beerboarding, mouse potato, skimmington, destinesia, louche and 15 more...
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Anglo-Saxon/Old English
Anglo-Saxon rootwords
mote, huru, byspel, elfshine, infaru, snotor, dern, upspring, meed, lof, queem, hof and 82 more...
chelster Sweven may mean sleep or a vision seen in sleep, a dream. — The Orthoepist Jun 8, 2010
bexx "I am so ful of joye and of solas,
That I diffye bothe sweven and dreem."
Geoffrey Chaucer,
The Canterbury Tales: The Nun's Priest's Tale, lines 3170-3171 Mar 29, 2007