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

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

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

From Modern Spiritualism by Uriah Smith

The human form in the work of Pheidias wore a joyous and sedate serenity; in that of Michael Angelo it is turbid with a strange and awful sense of inbreathed agitation.

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

But how faintly it was inbreathed, how passionlessly, as if the seraphim themselves were breathing upon him!

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham

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 William Evans

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

Our only safe inbreathing physically, mentally, and spiritually is from the upper source of things——not in the tainted atmospheres of the crowds.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort

Afterwards she went for a tramp on the moors, and steadied her nerve by the rapid swing of her walk, and the deep inbreathing of that glorious air.

From The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

Holiness is not something we do or attain: it is the communication of the Divine life, the inbreathing of the Divine nature, the power of the Divine Presence resting on us.

From Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Andrew Murray

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