LekhoriLekhorigerund of breathe: (uncountable) The act of respiration; (countable) a single instance of this.
[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]
A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
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.
present participle and gerund of breathe
From breathe + -ing.
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