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
Wind is a spirit, in defence of which he quoted the Greek pneuma.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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 H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule
