pneuma

Example Sentences

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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

It is hardly necessary to say that, in such contexts as this, where it stands more or less distinguished from the pneuma, it is not a synonym for "the body."

From Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)

This pneuma was equivalent to both soul and life, but it was something more.

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.