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Breathing time   /brˈiðɪŋ taɪm/   Listen
noun
Breathing  n.  
1.
Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air. "Subject to a difficulty of breathing."
2.
Air in gentle motion.
3.
Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit.
4.
Aspiration; secret prayer. "Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state."
5.
Exercising; promotion of respiration. "Here is a lady that wants breathing too; And I have heard, you knights of Tyre Are excellent in making ladies trip."
6.
Utterance; communication or publicity by words. "I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose."
7.
Breathing place; vent.
8.
Stop; pause; delay. "You shake the head at so long a breathing."
9.
Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h.
10.
(Gr. Gram.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below.
Breathing place.
(a)
A pause. "That caesura, or breathing place, in the midst of the verse."
(b)
A vent.
Breathing time, pause; relaxation.
Breathing while, time sufficient for drawing breath; a short time.
Rough breathing (spiritus asper). See 2d Asper, n.
Smooth breathing (spiritus lenis), a mark (') indicating the absence of the sound of h, as in ienai.





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"Breathing time" Quotes from Famous Books



... adventures of chivalry was beginning to pall. The following title to one of the chapters of Don Quixote is sufficiently suggestive: "Chapter LVIII.—Which tells how Adventures came crowding on Don Quixote in Such Numbers that they gave him No Breathing Time." ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... I will walke heere in the Hall; if it please his Maiestie, 'tis the breathing time of day with me; let the Foyles bee brought, the Gentleman willing, and the King hold his purpose; I will win for him if I can: if not, Ile gaine nothing but my shame, and ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... bread and water to help it down. My uncle is awfully religious. I can hardly stand it sometimes. He would like to spend half the day in chapel, but, happily for all the rest of us, the affairs of state are too urgent for that, so we do get a little breathing time, or else I should have to twist my mouth all of one side singing dolorous chants and tunes which are worse than a Danish war whoop, for he likes, he says, to ...
— Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
... gentleman in Britannia's confidence going straight from that lady to Veneering, thus commissioned, Veneering declares himself highly flattered, but requires breathing time to ascertain 'whether his friends will rally round him.' Above all things, he says, it behoves him to be clear, at a crisis of this importance, 'whether his friends will rally round him.' The legal gentleman, in the ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens
... for the kingdom, I doubt not in any way, but it may well be that his barons will refuse to embark in a war beyond the seas, which is altogether beyond the military service they are bound to render. At any rate, we have breathing time. Vast preparations must be made before he can invade England, and until he is ready we shall have messengers passing to and fro. A few of my chief councillors, the earls and great thanes, refuse to believe that William will ever attempt by force ...
— Wulf the Saxon - A Story of the Norman Conquest • G. A. Henty


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