Meaning of anhelation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Breathing difficulty, shortness of breath.
   archaic, uncountable
2. Mental or spiritual agitation.
   figuratively, obsolete, uncountable
3. Followed by after or for: eager desire; (countable) an instance of this.
   figuratively, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“In a Diſpnœa, the breath is thick, vvithout noiſe or anhelation, and vvith leſs trouble⟳.”

“[T]ruſt not upon that rule⟳, that men buy⟳ cheapeſt at the end⟳ of the market, that heaven may be had for a breath at laſt, vvhen they that hear⟳ it cannot tel vvhether it be a ſigh or a gaſp, a religious breathing and anhelation after the next life, or natural breathing out, and exhalation of this; but find⟳ a ſpiritual good husbandry in that other rule⟳, that the prime of the market is to be had at firſt: […]”

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