breathing

Definition

gerund of breathe: (uncountable) The act of respiration; (countable) a single instance of this.

Etymology

From breathe + -ing.

Example Sentences

• "[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]"
• "DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church? / CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. / LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind. / DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us."
• "the breathings of the Holy Spirit"