different between breathing vs bodily

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?i?ð??/

Verb

breathing

1. present participle of breathe

Noun

breathing (countable and uncountable, plural breathings)

1. The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
2. A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
3. (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1

     DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?

     CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

     LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.

     DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.

4. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.

   the breathings of the Holy Spirit

5. Aspiration; secret prayer.
   • May 24, 1683, John Tillotson, sermon preached at the funeral of Reverend Benjamin Whichcot

     earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state

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English

Etymology

body +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?d?li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?d?li/
• Hyphenation: bod?i?ly
• Homophone: bawdily (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Adjective

bodily (comparative more bodily, superlative most bodily)

1. Of, relating to, or concerning the body.

2. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal.
   • May 14, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 15

3. Real; actual; put into execution.

Synonyms

• corporal
• corporeal

Translations

Adverb

bodily (not comparable)

1. In bodily form; physically, corporally.
2. Pertaining to the whole body or mass; wholly.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:

     The papering of one side of the room had dropped down bodily, with fragments of plaster adhering to it, and almost blocked up the door.

3. Forcefully, vigorously.

   He was thrown bodily out of the house.

Synonyms

• bodyaciously (obsolete, dialect, rare)

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