pneuma
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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
But Aristotle did not consider the "pneuma," which thus reached the interior of the blood-vessels, to be exactly the same thing as air—it was "a subtilized and condensed air."
From Fathers of Biology by McRae, Charles
St. Paul says, "in him we live and move, and have our being;" and, in the 15th chapter to the Corinthians, distinguishes between the psyche or living spirit, and the pneuma or reviving spirit.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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