anhelation

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See also: anhélation

English

WOTD – 5 March 2023

Etymology

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]

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Noun

anhelation (countable and uncountable, plural anhelations)

  1. (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.
  2. (figuratively, obsolete)
    1. (uncountable) Mental or spiritual agitation.
    2. (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 Lncolns-Inne, April. 18. 1619. 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: […]

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References

  1. ^ “anhelation, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022.

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