breathing
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Verb[edit]
breathing
Noun[edit]
breathing (countable and uncountable, plural breathings)
- The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
- 1848, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal
- […] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]
- 1848, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal
- A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
- (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?
CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.
DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.
- Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.
- the breathings of the Holy Spirit
- Aspiration; secret prayer.
- May 24, 1683, John Tillotson, sermon preached at the funeral of Reverend Benjamin Whichcot
- earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state
- May 24, 1683, John Tillotson, sermon preached at the funeral of Reverend Benjamin Whichcot
Translations[edit]
act of respiration
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