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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of breath

Etymologies

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breathe +‎ -est

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Examples

  • I understand, that thou breathest nothing but revenge against me, for treating thee with so much freedom; and against the cursed woman and her infernal crew.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • English ground after the space I have allotted thee, thou diest — or if thou breathest aught that can attaint the honour of my house, by Saint

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Flat obedience to thy own flat commands, this is all thou breathest.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • "Thanking God that thou still breathest," I finished in awe.

    In the Garden of Iden 1997

  • Thy existence is tenfold redoubled, thy pulse is beating as when thou breathest the atmosphere of high mountains.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

  • Spring flowers are forever blooming in our hearts as thou breathest upon them, and age is but a name for thy immortal youth, O friend of dreamy hours and tender reveries. '

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various

  • Gospel and behold! thou makest out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and thou breathest into it and it becometh a bird by

    Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

  • Thou breathest the breath of life for ever and ever.

    The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians 1895

  • Thou breathest forth the air that is in thy throat into the nostrils of men; divine is that thing whereon they live.

    The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians 1895

  • If thou art found on English ground after the space I have allotted thee, thou diest --- or if thou breathest aught that can attaint the honour of my house, by Saint George! not the altar itself shall be a sanctuary.

    Ivanhoe 1892

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