pneuma
Americannoun
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the vital spirit; the soul.
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Theology. the Spirit of God; the Holy Ghost.
noun
Etymology
Origin of pneuma
1875–80; < Greek pneûma literally, breath, wind, akin to pneîn to blow, breathe
Example Sentences
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We leave the realm of biography and information, and we experience breath, pneuma, life itself.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022
A favorite word of his is pneuma: “the breath of life,” in Greek, which he first learned in one of his religion classes.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022
What further ballooned the President’s spirits amid the national conflict was the great pneuma of world solidarity.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2015
Here is the doctrine of the "pneuma," the product of the philosophical mould into which the animism of primitive men ran in Greece, in full force.
From Science & Education by Huxley, Thomas Henry
As a rule the arteries are empty after death, and Praxagoras believed that they were filled with an aeriform fluid, a sort of pneuma, which was responsible for their pulsation.
From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William
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