'dswounds

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Etymology

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Contraction of God's wounds; see zounds.

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'dswounds

  1. (archaic) Synonym of zounds.
    Synonym: 'swounds
    • 1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. []. The Second Part. Chapter IX. A Copy of Nic. Frog’s letter to John Bull.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: [] Benjamin Motte, [], →OCLC, page 107:
      ’Dſvvounds! vvhy doſt thou not lay out thy Money to purchaſe a Place at Court, of honeſt Iſrael?