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

Example Sentences

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inbreathed inbreathing

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 Kleiser, Grenville

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 Maclaren, Alexander

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

From Modern Spiritualism by Smith, Uriah

The unity of his work is derived from the effect of light and atmosphere, the inbreathed soul of tremulous and throbbing life, which bathes and liquefies the whole.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

We lay together and looked up into the far high sky, we breathed lightly: it seemed we exhaled the scent of flowers that we had inbreathed in the morning—we slept.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Graham, Stephen

The Scriptures are the result of divine inbreathing, just as human speech is uttered by the breathing through a man's mouth.

From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William

Too much inbreathing and too violent an effort at inhaling will not help the singer at all.

From Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing by Caruso, Enrico

In the breath, there should be right inbreathing, followed by the period of pause, when the air comes into contact with the blood, and this again followed by right outbreathing, even, steady, silent.

From The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man by Johnston, Charles

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 Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

Surely, the heart that overflows with an inbreathing of the divine, must be able to teach the common heart of humanity, else what is the use of inspiration?

From The Right Knock A Story by Van-Anderson, Helen