What is "swoonings"

Usage examples of "swoonings".

Here had been an opportunity for spasms, swoonings, and a display of sensibility, utterly neglected!

There were tears and sighs, swoonings and sobs, at the parting between Don Gregorio and Ana Felix.

I spoke one night to Luscinda, I told her all that had occurred, as I did also to her father, entreating him to allow some delay, and to defer the disposal of her hand until I should see what the Duke Ricardo sought of me: he gave me the promise, and she confirmed it with vows and swoonings unnumbered.