suspiration

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Learned borrowing from Latin suspīrātiō, suspīrātiōnem (“sighing”).

With brief suspiration he reassumed the candle, reascended the stairs, reapproached the door of the front room, hallfloor, and reentered. — Ulysses, James Joyce
A few tresses of her hair had escaped from beneath the Muslin which confined the rest, and fell carelessly over her bosom, as it heaved with slow and regular suspiration. — The Monk: A Romance, M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
When me he saw, he writhed himself all over, Blowing into his beard with suspirations; And the Friar Catalan, who noticed this, Said to me: “This transfixed one, whom thou seest, Counselled the Pharisees that it was meet To put one man to torture for the people. — Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell, Dante Alighieri

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