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Breathing
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- 1 Having life; living; alive. not-comparable
"Elantris is quite an exceptional read, a wonderfully rich world of living breathing characters, great plot, and some very original ideas."
- 1 passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination wordnet
- 1 gerund of breathe: (uncountable) The act of respiration; (countable) a single instance of this. countable, form-of, gerund, uncountable
"[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]"
- 2 the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation wordnet
- 3 A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof. countable, uncountable
- 4 Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time. archaic, countable, uncountable
"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."
- 5 Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration. countable, uncountable
"the breathings of the Holy Spirit"
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- 6 Aspiration; secret prayer. countable, uncountable
"Let us then begin Heaven here, in the Frame and Temper of our Minds, in our heavenly Affections and Converſation; in a due Prepation for, and in earneſt Deſires and Breathings after that bleſſed State vvhich vve firmly believe and aſſuredly hope to be one day poſſeſſed of: […]"
- 1 present participle and gerund of breathe form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
From breathe + -ing.
From breathe + -ing.
From breathe + -ing.
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