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

In spite of its symbolism, what he wrought was never mechanically figurative, but gifted with the independence of its own beauty, vital with an inbreathed spirit of life.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

They are not the inevitable products of creative genius, fusing and informing—the children of imagination, "dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce."

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

Both the scribe and the Scripture, both the man of God and the word of God were divinely inbreathed.

From The Ministry of the Spirit by A. J. (Adoniram Judson) Gordon

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

Spirit should converse with spirit, through no veil of symbol, but through the transparent medium of art, itself instinct with inbreathed life and radiant with ideal beauty.

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

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

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

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

The man thinks his consciousness is himself; whereas his life consisteth in the inbreathing of God, and the consciousness of the universe of truth.

From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by George MacDonald

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

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