inbreathe

American  

[in-breeth, in-breeth] / ˈɪnˌbrið, ɪnˈbrið /

verb (used with object)

inbreathed, inbreathing

1. to breathe in; inhale.

2. to inspire; infuse with.

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inbreathe British  

/ ɪnˈbriːð /

verb

1. rare (tr) to infuse or imbue

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Etymology

Origin of inbreathe

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at in- ¹, breathe

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Example Sentences

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inbreathed inbreathing

I had inbreathed their mystery and outbreathed it again as my own.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham

The grove of pillars through which the pageant passed grew from the living rock into shapes of beauty, fulfilling by the inbreathed spirit of man Nature's blind yearning after absolute completion.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds

And the divine Procedure inbreathed upon the disclosure, and the disclosure became the universe.”

From Modern Spiritualism by Uriah Smith

The character of the gospels and the letters must have been due to something that Jesus said or that the Holy Spirit inbreathed.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser

God's way of giving to us is to breathe within us a desire, and then to answer the desire inbreathed.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

Inspiration means an 'inbreathing,' a breathing in of true knowledge, and because the omnipresent Good comes into every consciousness prepared to receive it, there is an inbreathing in accordance with the readiness to receive.

From The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

The inbreathing of the Almighty, All-powerful Truth, giveth understanding.

From The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

So it went on for innumerable ages, and nobody dreamed of anything else until at last the conditions were ripe for the inbreathing of an intellectual life into these inert and senseless clods.

From Equality by Edward Bellamy

Here followed an ominous inbreathing, ending in an explosive “Huh!”

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various

In general there were only scattered members of a Christian community, awaiting the inbreathing of some quickening spiritual influence that should bring bone to its bone and erect the whole into a living church.

From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon

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