breath of life

English

Noun

breath of life

  1. Divine animation; that which brings life into living things.
    • 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 20:
      He it was who had bespangled the soils with russet leaves and reeds and who had breathed the breath of life into beings.
    • 2017 January 20, Elizabeth Williamson, quoting Donald J. Trump, “What We’re Seeing at Trump’s Presidential Inauguration”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 January 2017, Opinion‎[2]:
      "Whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator."
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