inbreathe
Americanverb
Etymology
Origin of inbreathe
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at in- 1, breathe
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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
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
She inbreathed sharply, then her eyes narrowed a trifle.
From Midnight by Octavus Roy Cohen
A receptivity must be brought about, a new life must be inbreathed.
From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by M. (Mosheim) Rhodes
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
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
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
The Scriptures came by the inbreathing of God, 2 Tim.
From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by William Evans
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 William Evans
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
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