† aspirementn.
Obsolete. rare.
1. Breathing, breath.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > [noun]
orthOE
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spiritc1350
aspirement1393
breathinga1398
suspiry1398
spirtc1415
respiration?a1425
respiring?a1425
windc1450
soufflement1483
anding1487
spiring1533
spiration1568
suspiration1604
aspiration1608
expiration1638
eupnœa1706
flation1708
rebreathing1877
ventilation1891
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 93 Air..Of whose kinde his aspirementes Taketh every livissh creature.
2. Aspiring, aspiration, steadfast upward desire.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > aspiration or ambition > [noun]
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ambition?a1439
ambitiousnessa1500
affectation1549
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aspiring1584
philotimy1593
ambitiositya1600
aspirement1607
aspiration1609
votea1626
anhelation1628
breathinga1635
drivenness1902
1607 Lingua iii. vi, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 399 By which aspirement she her wings displays, And herself thither, whence she came, upraise.
a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1704) V. ii. 184 And not Christ only, but God also is the object of our Aspirement.
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