breathings in English
noun
1
the process of taking air into and expelling it from the lungs.
his breathing was shallow
2
a sign in Greek (῾ or ᾿) indicating the presence of an aspirate ( rough breathing ) or the absence of an aspirate ( smooth breathing ) at the beginning of a word.
Greek was very like Latin with the added burden of a new alphabet to learn, with breathings and subscripts.
Use "breathings" in a sentence
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1. Those inmost breathings which there found words took hold upon him.
2. The report went on to explain how one announcer invites couples to the studio and “begins to go through the adjectives of his erotic dictionary to accompany the heavy breathings and sighs of couples who have decided to make love live in front of the microphones.”