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
The question was sure to arise, Whence came this pneuma or spiritual quality?
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske
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 Thomas Henry Huxley
