breathful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breathful
form: most breathful
Etymology: From breath + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: They for nought would from their work refrain, Nor let his speeches come unto their ear; And eke the breathful bellows blew amain Like to the northern wind, that none could hear:
ref: 1932, Edmund Spenser, Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, Charles Grosvenor Osgood, The Works of Edmund Spenser - Volume 1, page 365:
text: the universe as body, mass as energy and energy as mass, became transformed to spirit when, through us, originating laughter found a name for everything that is and nourished into breathful form.
ref: 1989, Robert Pack, Before it Vanishes: A Packet for Professor Pagels, page 78:
text: His approach is not limited by a narrow understanding of media but brings an innovative, expanded conception that includes technologies or techniques of our selves (such as cultures of breath) animal bodies and their breathful selves, and nature as revealed through technology.
ref: 2018, Lenart kof, Petri Berndtson, Atmospheres of Breathing, page xxii:
glosses: That breathes; alive.
examples: text: Fresh Costmarie, and breathfull Camomill.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, Complaints:
text: Men came, they partook, and they breathed of ramps. They had left their telltale and breathful mark.
ref: 1968, The Herbarist - Issues 34-37, page 32:
glosses: Full of odour; fragrant.
examples: text: He spoke a queer, jerky kind of American that I can only describe as breathful.
ref: 1938, Aletta Lewis, They Call Them Savages, page 7:
text: He smelled the rank odor of the man and heard his breathful muttering.
ref: 1946, Edward Kimbrough, Night Fire, page 63:
text: Against the window her lips press a row of breathful O's until, due to both a quick and vengeful draft, her candle's flame lilts, disappears.
ref: 1980, Dennis Shramek, Sly Ohio, page 21:
text: She was crying, great breathful sobs.
ref: 1993, Neil Jordan, A Neil Jordan reader, page 26:
glosses: Full of breath, produced by the breath; breathy.
examples: text: The breathful twist on timing also adds a touch of novelty and a bit of distraction when facing more difficult topics.
ref: 1990, Gerald Goodman, The Talk Book, page 240:
text: Breathful movement practices such as Chi Kung/ Qigong (Lam Kam Chuen 1999) have been used successfully by group psychotherapists to energize and soothe, even in settings where psychological distress is intense (Potik and Schreiber 2013).
ref: 2013, Jill Hayes, Soul and Spirit in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, page 92:
glosses: Focused on control of one's breathing.
examples: text: The poem celebrates itself, wedding the body's cry with the mind's linguistic design; it is a metaphor for the literal human voice transformed into poetic speech. One might imagine that in the beginning was the letter O and its breathful sound.
ref: 1985 Robert Pack, Affirming Limits: Essays on Mortality, Choice, and Poetic Form, page 59:
text: Individual wind instruments do not get obscured during the interplay of the tutti orchestra. Each section appears in naturally airy, breathful, resonant relief.
ref: 1994, The Absolute Sound - Volume 19, Issues 99-102, page 94:
text: But now Chet is back again with the long, breathful pauses of My Funny Valentine, and my favourite work of art which he rhymes with heart and all the mystery of trying to make the big and the little things fit seems just like the breath, the precarious breath
ref: 2006, Robert Seatter, On the Beach with Chet Baker, page 17:
glosses: Characteristic of a breath; breath-like.
examples: text: The end result of the Princeton experiment was that a startled but breathful Rutgers team downed a hell-raising breathless Princeton squad, 6-4.
ref: 1977, Stan Fischler, Steve Namm, Stan Fischler's sports stumpers, page 120:
text: My face relaxed as a smile broke my tension. I hitched my pack up, stood straight, and walked with measured, breathful steps.
ref: 1995, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives - Issues 53-56, page 112:
glosses: Not breathless; breathing easily.
examples: text: After the noon-blaze, in the breathful eve, The many 'folk of holiday ' come out ; And lovers saunter on the pier, and leave The gossip of their friends, to walk about
ref: 1874, London Society, page 49:
text: Lying awake with back that burned beneath its lotioned rags, when lights were low, in the breathful silence of the hospital, he registered in his heart a terrible oath that he would die ere he would again be made such hideous sport for his enemies.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 287:
text: It was the breathful stillness of a tropical afternoon.
ref: 1969, Australian Literary Studies, page 383:
text: And I decide to write to you as soon as I get a breathful respite.
ref: 1984, Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, Nemicandra Jaina, Pāyā patra tumhārā:
text: Now I plunge my pen against the page and scribble toward a purpose unperceived, for now, in breathful, placid frame, I am no more a poet than a rose;
ref: 1985, St. Andrews review - Issue 29, page 47:
text: No special technique needed. Just take time to sense this breathful movement.
ref: 2006, Howard A. Addison, Barbara Eve Breitman, Jewish Spiritual Direction:
glosses: Relaxed and quiet.