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

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

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

From Modern Spiritualism by Uriah Smith

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 John Addington Symonds

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

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham

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 Stephen Graham

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

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 Helen Van-Anderson

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

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

The descriptions, graphic as they undoubtedly are, lack for the most part the final imaginative touch; the kind of inbreathing of life which afterwards gave such individual charm to Dickens' word-painting.

From Life of Charles Dickens by Frank T. (Frank Thomas) Marzials

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