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pneuma

[noo-muh, nyoo-] / ˈnu mə, ˈnju- /




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We leave the realm of biography and information, and we experience breath, pneuma, life itself.

From New York Times Jan. 26, 2022

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

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

The basic principle of life, in the Galenic physiology, is a spirit, anima or pneuma, drawn from the general world-soul in the act of respiration.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

Material pneuma is destined to high functions; and man is to read by gas-light.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene




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