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

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

A receptivity must be brought about, a new life must be inbreathed.

From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by Rhodes, M. (Mosheim)

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 Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

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

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

From A Tramp's Sketches by Graham, Stephen

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 Van-Anderson, Helen

The Scriptures came by the inbreathing of God, 2 Tim.

From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William

Never did I hear any thing more sonorously grand and awful than that portentous inbreathing of Gog and Magog, resounding through the Gothic vastness of Guildhall; but, behold! how omnipotent is the dreaming imagination!

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 by Various

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

Inspiration, then, as defined by Paul in this passage, is the strong, conscious inbreathing of God into men, qualifying them to give utterance to truth.

From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William