Definition of "spiration" []

• The act of breathing (noun)

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• "As we are utterly incapable of otherwise fixing the meaning of the mysterious mode affecting this relation of origin, we apply to it the name spiration, the signification of which is principally negative and by way of contrast, in the sense that it affirms a Procession peculiar to the Holy Ghost and exclusive of filiation."
• "The old belief must be cast out or the new idea will be spilled, and the in - spiration, which is to change our standpoint, will be"
• "Usually I is called a different kind of spiration, a exaspiration."