Definition of "insufflation" [in•suf•fla•tion]

• The act or an instance of insufflating. (noun)
• Ecclesiastical A ritual act of breathing on baptismal water or on the one being baptized. (noun)

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• "A moment later there was a soft, almost inaudible insufflation; the door stirred and moved outward perhaps six inches, then stopped."
• "And still Ehomba continued his unnatural insufflation, until the last of the blackness had vanished, drawn deep down within himself."
• "Where the Gloss again hath it; "Those plagues which are inflicted by the insufflation of the devil, not by the hands of men.""