anhelation
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See also: anhélation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French anhélation, or directly from its etymon Latin anhēlātiō (“shortness of breath, gasping, panting, puffing”) (compare Late Latin anhēlātiō (“desire; eager pursuit”)), from anhēlātus (“exhaled”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs). Anhēlātus is the perfect passive participle of anhēlō (“to breathe out, exhale; to draw breath with difficulty, gasp, pant, puff”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ænhɪˈleɪʃn̩/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌænhəˈleɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: an‧hel‧at‧ion
Noun
[edit]anhelation (countable and uncountable, plural anhelations)
- (uncountable, pulmonology, archaic) Breathing difficulty, shortness of breath.
- Synonyms: breathlessness, (North American spelling) dyspnea, (British spelling) dyspnoea
- 1655, Lazarus Riverius [i.e., Lazare Rivière], “Of Asthma, or Difficulty of Breathing”, in Nicholas Culpeper, Abdiah Cole, and William Rowland, transl., The Practice of Physick, […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, 7th book (Of the Diseases of the Breast), page 148:
- In a Diſpnœa, the breath is thick, vvithout noiſe or anhelation, and vvith leſs trouble.
- (figuratively, obsolete)
- (uncountable) Mental or spiritual agitation.
- (uncountable) Followed by after or for: eager desire; (countable) an instance of this.
- 1619 April 28, John Donne, “A Sermon of Valediction at My Going into Germany, at L[i]ncolns-Inne, April. 18. 1619. [Julian calendar] Sermon XIX.”, in XXVI. Sermons (Never before Publish’d) Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine John Donne, […], London: […] Thomas Newcomb, […], published 1661, →OCLC, page 278:
- [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: […]
Related terms
[edit]- anhelant (obsolete)
- anhele (obsolete)
- anheled (adjective) (obsolete)
- anhelose (archaic)
- anhelous (archaic)
Translations
[edit]breathing difficulty — see also shortness of breath
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References
[edit]- ^ “anhelation, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022.
Further reading
[edit]shortness of breath on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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