Exspiration

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of expiration. alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "If the skin be ouer thick, or ouer rare, thẽ doth it not admit throgh the thicknes of the ſpirites, or at the leaſt maketh not that ſhewe, nor retaineth them through the rareneſſe and thinnes, and by exſpiration make no apparaunce of rednes: this is the cauſe why many aſhamed bee not ſo ready to bluſh."

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"If the skin be ouer thick, or ouer rare, thẽ doth it not admit throgh the thicknes of the ſpirites, or at the leaſt maketh not that ſhewe, nor retaineth them through the rareneſſe and thinnes, and by exſpiration make no apparaunce of rednes: this is the cauſe why many aſhamed bee not ſo ready to bluſh."

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