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
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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
We leave the realm of biography and information, and we experience breath, pneuma, life itself.
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
There is just the same reason for giving to all these terms their old, obsolete, physical currency that there is for giving to pneuma, or spirit, the old obsolete currency of wind or air.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 by Aaron Walker
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 William Osler
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