| 单词 | life-breath |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife-breath life-breath n. (a) the breath that supports life; cf. breath of life at breath n. Phrases 1a; (b) figurative an inspiring influence, a sustaining principle; cf. lifeblood n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > as dependent on sustenance > means of life bylivec1000 sustenancec1300 sustaining1395 sap1526 livinga1538 maintenance1540 life-breath1597 support1599 subsistence1606 through-bearing1705 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas vi. 87 This is the band wherby the common wealth hangeth together, the life-breath which these many thousand creatures draw. 1657 J. Harington Hist. Polindor & Flostella (ed. 3) iii. 158 Just when Polindor's Feast, gave up Life-breath That wild young King , mere surffetted to death. 1786 T. Holcroft Amourous Tale ii. vi. 118 An thou wishest me to vow thee, and only thee, to love, while this life breath I draw, that will I straight do. 1811 W. Dimond Gustavus Vasa iii. iv. 68 More precious than is the life-breath, that links that soul unto my mortal heart. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvii. 621 That constitutional spirit which was the life-breath of parliamentary growth. 1997 S. Heighton Admen move on Lhasa i. 8 What is a poem, finally, but life-breath exhaled and given form? < as lemmas |
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