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† aˈspirement Obs. rare.
[a. OF. aspirement, f. aspirer: see aspire v. and -ment.]
1. Breathing, breath.
1393Gower Conf. III. 93 Air..Of whose kinde his aspirementes Taketh every livissh creature.
2. Aspiring, aspiration, steadfast upward desire.
1607Brewer Lingua iii. vi. in Hazl. Dodsl. IX. 399 By which aspirement she her wings displays, And herself thither, whence she came, upraise. a1679T. Goodwin Wks. 1863 VII. 483 And not Christ only, but God also, is the object of our aspirement. |