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

Here is the doctrine of the "pneuma," the product of the philosophical mould into which the animism of primitive men ran in Greece, in full force.

From Science & Education by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Hence in ancient tongues “breath” and “soul” are used as synonyms, as the Hebrew nefesh and neshamah, the Latin anima and spiritus, the Greek pneuma and psyche.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann